Design, implementation, and performance of MPI on Portals 3.0

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-20

  Brightwell, Ron ^a   Riesen, Rolf ^a   Maccabe, Arthur B ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Cplant; Message passing; MPI; Myrinet; Portals

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEMANTICS;

MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0037358589     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094342003017001002     Document Type: Article

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