MPICH/Madeleine: a true multi-protocol MPI for high performance networks

13 November 2002

proceedings article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1388, 8-51
https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdps.2001.924991

Abstract

This paper introduces a version of MPICH handling eficiently different networks simultaneously. The core of the implementation relies on a device called ch_mad which is based on a generic multiprotocol communication library called Madeleine .The performance achieved with tested networks such as Fast-Ethernet, Scalable Coherent Interface or Myrinet is very good. Indeed, this multi-protocol version of MPICH generally outperforms other free or commercial implementations of MPI.

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