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Evaluation of the communication performance on a parallel processing system

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1997)

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This article presents an evaluation study of point-to-point and collective communication performance on a parallel processing system, a 16 node Parsytec PowerXplorer, using three different communication environments: PARIX, PVM and MPI.

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  1. Dep. Informática, Universidade do Minho, 4719, Braga Codex, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Santos, Vítor Castro & Alberto Proença

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  1. Luís Paulo Santos
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Marian Bubak Jack Dongarra Jerzy Waśniewski

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Santos, L.P., Castro, V., Proença, A. (1997). Evaluation of the communication performance on a parallel processing system. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_68

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