Design alternatives for implementing fence synchronization in MPI-2 one-sided communication for InfiniBand clusters

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Santhanaraman, G ^a   Gangadharappa, T ^a   Narravula, S ^a   Mamidala, A ^a   Panda, D K ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; DE FACTO STANDARD; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; FENCE SYNCHRONIZATION; INFINIBAND CLUSTERS; INFINIBAND NETWORKS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MICROBENCHMARKS; MODEL SYNCHRONIZATION; NOVEL DESIGN; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING MODEL; REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FENCES; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 72049105085     PISSN: 15525244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTR.2009.5289200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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