NHSE Review^TM 1997 Volume First Issue

A Survey of MPI Implementations

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Index

• Author & Abstract
• Introduction and History
• Relation of MPI to PVM and HPF
• Review Criteria
  1. Compliance.
  2. Unspecified Behavior.
  3. Integration with the environment.
  4. Performance.
  5. Tools.
• MPICH
  1. General comments on all devices
     • Goodies.
     • Building MPICH.
     • Debugging.
     • Problems.
  2. The ch_p4 device
  3. The ch_shmem and ch_lfshmem devices
  4. The ch_nexus Device
  5. MPP devices: ch_cenju3, ch_mpl, ch_nx, nx, t3d
• Other Freely Available Implementations
  1. LAM -- Local Area Multicomputer
     • Usability.
     • Tools.
  2. CHIMP -- Common High-level Interface to Message Passing
  3. Other implementations
     • NT
     • Win32
     • Active Messages
     • Fast Messages
     • Multithreaded (MT) Device
     • TransMPI
• Vendor Implementations
  1. IBM
     • Usability.
     • Tools.
  2. HP
     • Usability
     • Tools
  3. Sun
  4. Digital
  5. SGI
     • SGI/PVP
     • SGI/T3E
     • SGI/Irix
       • Usability
       • Tools
  6. NEC SX-4
  7. Others
     • Mercury Race
     • Hitachi
     • NEC Cenju-3
     • Alpha Data
     • Fujitsu
     • PVMPI
• Portability Issues
  1. Buffering
  2. Non-standard Send Modes
  3. Standard I/O
  4. Performance Considerations with User-Defined Datatypes
  5. Thread-safe MPI
• MPI-2
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• References

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