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MPICH-G2

swMATH ID: 2373
Software Authors: Karonis, Nicholas T.; Toonen, Brian; Foster, Ian
Description: MPICH-G2: A grid-enabled implementation of the message passing interface. Application development for distributed-computing “Grids” can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these issues, we have developed MPICH-G2, a Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across multiple computers, at the same or different sites, using the same commands that would be used on a parallel computer. This library extends the Argonne MPICH implementation of MPI to use services provided by the Globus Toolkit for authentication, authorization, resource allocation, executable staging, and I/O, as well as for process creation, monitoring, and control. Various performance-critical operations, including startup and collective operations, are configured to exploit network topology information. The library also exploits MPI constructs for performance management; for example, the MPI communicator construct is used for application-level discovery of, and adaptation to, both network topology and network quality-of-service mechanisms. We describe the MPICH-G2 design and implementation, present performance results, and review application experiences, including record-setting distributed simulations.
Homepage: http://faculty.cs.niu.edu/~karonis/tempg2/g2_body.html
Keywords: MPI; Grid computing; Message passing; Globus Toolkit; MPICH-G2
Related Software: Globus Toolkit; MPI; MPI/MPICH; PVM; Java CoG Kit; Pegasus; LAM-MPI; CrossGrid; Open Science Grid; mpiBLAST; Charlotte; MAGDA; GROWL; NAMD2; Gromacs; Chameleon; MyCoG.NET; WebSphere; DiPerF; AVL
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