CCL: a portable and tunable collective communication library for scalable parallel computers

A collective communication library for parallel computers includes frequently used operations such as broadcast, reduce, scatter, gather, concatenate, synchronize, and shift. Such a library provides users with a convenient programming interface, efficient communication operations, and the advantage...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Jg. 6; H. 2; S. 154 - 164
Hauptverfasser: Bala, V., Bruck, J., Cypher, R., Elustondo, P., Ho, A., Ching-Tien Ho, Kipnis, S., Snir, M.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.02.1995
IEEE Computer Society
Schlagworte:
Algorithm design and analysis
Application software
Applied sciences
Broadcasting
Computer interfaces
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Concurrent computing
Exact sciences and technology
Libraries
Parallel programming
Portable computers
Scattering
Software
Software engineering
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Parallel programming
Parallel system
Program library
User interface
Semantics
Parallel processing
Message transmission
Communication
ISSN:1045-9219
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Zusammenfassung:A collective communication library for parallel computers includes frequently used operations such as broadcast, reduce, scatter, gather, concatenate, synchronize, and shift. Such a library provides users with a convenient programming interface, efficient communication operations, and the advantage of portability. A library of this nature, the Collective Communication Library (CCL), intended for the line of scalable parallel computer products by IBM, has been designed. CCL is part of the parallel application programming interface of the recently announced IBM 9076 Scalable POWERparallel System 1 (SP1). In this paper, we examine several issues related to the functionality, correctness, and performance of a portable collective communication library while focusing on three novel aspects in the design and implementation of CCL: 1) the introduction of process groups, 2) the definition of semantics that ensures correctness, and 3) the design of new and tunable algorithms based on a realistic point-to-point communication model.< >
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ISSN:1045-9219
DOI:10.1109/71.342126