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The MPI Communication Library for the K Computer: Its Design and Implementation

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 7490))

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This talk presents the overall design and implementation of the MPI communication library for the K computer. The K computer introduces the Tofu interconnect, 6D torus/mesh topology, for higher performance and availability for peta-scale systems, however, present several issues to increase performance, availability and usability. In this talk, these issues, approaches, designs and implementations are discussed. Performance evaluation results are also presented.

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Sumimoto, S. (2012). The MPI Communication Library for the K Computer: Its Design and Implementation. In: Träff, J.L., Benkner, S., Dongarra, J.J. (eds) Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface. EuroMPI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33518-1_3

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