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MPJ/Ibis: A Flexible and Efficient Message Passing Platform for Java

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2005)

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The MPJ programming interface has been defined by the Java Grande forum to provide MPI-like message passing for Java applications. In this paper, we present MPJ/Ibis, the first implementation of MPJ based on our Ibis programming environment for cluster and grid computing. By exploiting both flexibility and efficiency of Ibis, our MPJ implementation delivers high-performance communication, while being deployable on various platforms, from Myrinet-based clusters to grids. We evaluated MPJ/Ibis on our DAS-2 cluster. Our results show that MPJ/Ibis’ performance is competitive to mpiJava on Myrinet and Fast Ethernet, and to C-based MPICH on Fast Ethernet.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Markus Bornemann, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort & Thilo Kielmann

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Second University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29, 81031, Aversa, CE, Italy

    Beniamino Di Martino

  2. GUP, Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040, Linz, Austria

    Dieter Kranzlmüller

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

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Bornemann, M., van Nieuwpoort, R.V., Kielmann, T. (2005). MPJ/Ibis: A Flexible and Efficient Message Passing Platform for Java. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_30

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