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EuroPVM/MPI 1999: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface pp 199–206Cite as

An MPI Implementation on the Top of the Virtual Interface Architecture

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Abstract

This paper describes an implementation of the LAM MPI suite on the top of the Virtual Interface Architecture.

The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an emerging standard designed by Intel, Microsoft, and Compaq aimed at the reduction of communication latency for cluster of workstations or system area networks.

Thanks to M-VIA, a Linux software module that emulates VIA and provides programmers of VIA APIs, it has been possible to develop an MPI implementation even in absence of a hardware VIA interface. Nonetheless, M-VIA module high optimization as well as VIA protocol simplicity permitted a reduction of latency time with respect to the use of the TCP/IP protocol on Ethernet network interfaces.

The work described in this paper has been carried out under the financial support of the Italian Ministero dell’Universitá e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) in the framework of the MOSAICO (Design Methodologies and Tools of High Performance Systems for Distributed Applications) Project.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Universitá di Parma, I-43100, Parma, Italy

    Massimo Bertozzi, Franco Boselli, Gianni Conte & Monica Reggiani

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Bertozzi, M., Boselli, F., Conte, G., Reggiani, M. (1999). An MPI Implementation on the Top of the Virtual Interface Architecture. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_25

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