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16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications
Towards Asynchronous Metacomputing in MPI
Moncton, NB, Canada
June 16-June 19
ISBN: 0-7695-1626-2
Angela C. Sodan, University of Windsor
Metacomputing so far has been done mostly in more or less static configurations. However, applications with dynamic irregular behavior are increasing in significance and the computing platforms more often are time-sharing environments with varying system load. Thus, possibilities for dynamic connection and dynamic workload migration are becoming important. This paper discusses an approach to perform asynchronous workload balancing using the standard parallel library MPI. MPI and Threads typically live in more or less separated worlds and the thread extension of MPI-2 is mainly meant to exploit more efficiently per SMP node within a model which is still mostly SPMD. We have extended MPI by dynamic mechanisms to automatically balance workload on the basis of threads and dynamic status/resource monitoring. Our extended library TeMPI is designed to run with in a minimum version with MPICH and thus MPICH-G2 in the Globus grid environment.
Citation:
Angela C. Sodan, "Towards Asynchronous Metacomputing in MPI," hpcs, pp.221, 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, 2002
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