Building a High-performance Message-passing System for MEMORY CHANNEL Clusters

DEVICE INTERFACE ABSTRACT DEVICE INTERFACE Figure 14 Digital MPI Architecture Table 5 MPI Latency Comparison MPI Implementation Transport Platform Latency MPICH 1.0.10 Sockets FDDI DEC 3000/800 350 ms MPICH 1.0.10 Shared Memory AlphaServer 2100 4/233 30 ms Digital MPI V1.0 MEMORY CHANNEL 1.0 AlphaServer 2100 4/233 16 ms Digital MPI V1.0 MEMORY CHANNEL 1.5 AlphaServer 4100 5/300 6.9 ms Digital MPI V1.0 Shared Memory AlphaServer 2100 4/233 9.5 ms Digital MPI V1.0 Shared Memory AlphaServer 4100 5/300 5.2 ms

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