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12th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'04)
RDMA Control Support for Fine-Grain Parallel Computations
A Coruna, Spain
February 11-February 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2083-9
Adam Smyk, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Marek Tudruj, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology and Polish Academy of Sciences
The paper concerns parallel computations with communication based on Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), which provides low level un-buffered access to distributed memory of computational nodes. Fine grain computations involve very frequent transmissions of small messages. For their efficient execution with RDMA communication a special memory infrastructure — rotating buffers (RB) — is introduced. Their organization is adjusted to program needs in advance - before program execution. It allows an intensive use of all communication resources available in the system based on additional synchronization between involved processes. The proposed method is illustrated by an example of a typical fine-grain problem which is the discrete Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). "The transpose algorithm" of FFT has been implemented with the RDMA rotating buffers and its efficiency is compared with a solution based on standard message passing library MPI.
Citation:
Adam Smyk, Marek Tudruj, "RDMA Control Support for Fine-Grain Parallel Computations," pdp, pp.208, 12th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP'04), 2004
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