MPI and Java-MPI contrasts and comparisons of low-level communication performance

Java is receiving increasing attention as the most popular platform for distributed and collaborative computing. However, it is still subject to significant performance drawbacks in comparison to other programming languages such as C and Fortran. This paper represents the current status of our ongoi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing S. 21 - es
Hauptverfasser: Getov, Vladimir, Gray, Paul, Sunderam, Vaidy
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.1999
IEEE
Schriftenreihe:ACM Conferences
Schlagworte:
Bandwidth
Collaboration
Computer languages
Computer systems organization > Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
Delay
Distributed computing
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Evaluation
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Metrics
General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Performance
Guidelines
Hardware > Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
Java
Networks
Networks > Network performance evaluation
Performance analysis
Pipelines
Reproducibility of results
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Contextual software domains > Operating systems > Communications management > Message passing
ISBN:1581130910, 9781581130911
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Zusammenfassung:Java is receiving increasing attention as the most popular platform for distributed and collaborative computing. However, it is still subject to significant performance drawbacks in comparison to other programming languages such as C and Fortran. This paper represents the current status of our ongoing project which intends to conduct a detailed experimental evaluation on the suitability of Java in these environments, with particular focus on its message-passing performance for one-to-one as well as one-to-many and many-to- many data exchange patterns. We also emphasize both methodology and evaluation guidelines in order to ensure reproducibility, sound interpretation, and comparative analysis of performance results. Some of the important parameters which characterize the communication performance of MPI and Java-MPI such as latency, asymptotic bandwidth and N-half are investigated. In addition, we introduce two different types of pipeline effects - intra-message and inter-message - that have significant influence on the message-passing performance. For this purpose we have developed a low-level message-passing benchmark suite, which we have used to evaluate and compare different message-passing environments on the IBM SP-2.
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ISBN:1581130910
9781581130911
DOI:10.1145/331532.331553