| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K41519/01 |
| Title: |
PROTOCOLS FOR PORTABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE MESSAGE PASSING IN PARALLEL COMPUTERS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Nicole, Dr DA |
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Electronics and Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Southampton |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1995 |
Ends: |
31 March 1997 |
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93,854
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This proposal will research the effective use of portable message-passing (MP) parallel systems in High Performance Computing (HPC). Market demand has already established standards for some key HPC components, such as Chorus microkernel-based UNIX and the MPI definition for application-level MP programming, but the important issue of the efficient interaction between the microkernel and the MP system has not yet been considered in the general case. This would enable a portable MPI implementation with low-latency high-performance communications over a range of potential architectures (and thus messaging fabrics).Investigation of an MPI subsystem based on a set of kernel and user Actors and user libraries. Important issues to be addressed include the full use of available standards, the provision of portability across a range of modern reliable-delivery messaging fabrics and efficient low-latency performance while still permitting unrestricted use of all Unix facilities. A comprehensive evaluation will be conducted on a range of parallel systems including an independent assessment by Parsys.
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http://www.soton.ac.uk |