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Exploiting Non-blocking Remote Memory Access Communication in Scientific Benchmarks

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High Performance Computing - HiPC 2003 (HiPC 2003)

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This paper describes a comparative performance study of MPI and Remote Memory Access (RMA) communication models in context of four scientific benchmarks: NAS MG, NAS CG, SUMMA matrix multiplication, and Lennard Jones molecular dynamics on clusters with the Myrinet network. It is shown that RMA communication delivers a consistent performance advantage over MPI. In some cases an improvement as much as 50% was achieved. Benefits of using non-blocking RMA for overlapping computation and communication are discussed.

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA

    Vinod Tipparaju, Manojkumar Krishnan & Jarek Nieplocha

  2. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman & Dhabaleswar Panda

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Tipparaju, V., Krishnan, M., Nieplocha, J., Santhanaraman, G., Panda, D. (2003). Exploiting Non-blocking Remote Memory Access Communication in Scientific Benchmarks. In: Pinkston, T.M., Prasanna, V.K. (eds) High Performance Computing - HiPC 2003. HiPC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2913. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24596-4_27

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