Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Invited Speakers

   1. The SPMD Model: Past, Present and Future

      • Frederica Darema

      Pages 1-1

   2. Building a Foundation for the Next PVM: Petascale Virtual Machines

      • G. Al Geist

      Pages 2-6

   3. Challenges and Successes in Achieving the Potential of MPI

      • William D. Gropp

      Pages 7-7

   4. Programming High Performance Applications in Grid Environments

      • Domenico Laforenza

      Pages 8-9

   5. NPACI Rocks Clusters: Tools for Easily Deploying and Maintaining Manageable High-Performance Linux Clusters

      • Philip M. Papadopoulos, Mason J. Katz, Greg Bruno

      Pages 10-11

   6. Clusters for Data-Intensive Applications in the Grid

      • Alexander Reinefeld

      Pages 12-13

   7. A Comparative Analysis of PVM/MPI and Computational Grids

      • Vaidy Sunderam, Zsolt Németh

      Pages 14-15

3. Implementation, Evaluation and Performance of PVM/MPI

   1. MPI-2 One-Sided Communications on a Giganet SMP Cluster

      • Maciej Golłcbiewski, Jesper Larsson Träff

      Pages 16-23

   2. Effective Communication and File-I/O Bandwidth Benchmarks

      • Rolf Rabenseifner, Alice E. Koniges

      Pages 24-35

   3. Performance of PENTRAN™ 3-D Parallel Particle Transport Code on the IBM SP2 and PCTRAN Cluster

      • Vefa Kucukboyaci, Alireza Haghighat, Glenn E. Sjoden

      Pages 36-43

   4. Layering SHMEM on Top of MPI

      • Lars Paul Huse

      Pages 44-51

   5. Support for MPI at the Network Interface Level

      • Bernard Tourancheau, Roland Westrelin

      Pages 52-60

   6. The Implementation of One-Sided Communications for WMPI II

      • Tiago Baptista, Hernani Pedroso, João Gabriel Silva

      Pages 61-68

   7. Assessment of PVM Suitability to Testbed Client-Agent-Server Applications

      • Mariusz R. Matuszek

      Pages 69-74

4. Extensions and Improvements on PVM/MPI

   1. TH-MPI: OS Kernel Integrated Fault Tolerant MPI

      • Yu Chen, Qian Fang, Zhihui Du, Sanli Li

      Pages 75-82

   2. CPPvm - C++ and PVM

      • Steffen Görzig

      Pages 83-90

   3. Persistent and Non-persistent Data Objects on Top of PVM and MPI

      • G. Manis

      Pages 91-97

   4. System Area Network Extensions to the Parallel Virtual Machine

      • Markus Fischer

      Pages 98-105

   5. Adding Dynamic Coscheduling Support to PVM

      • A. Gaito, M. Rak, U. Villano

      Pages 106-113

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) are the most frequently used tools for programming according to the message passing paradigm, which is considered one of the best ways to develop parallel appli- tions. This volume comprises 50 revised contributions presented at the Eighth - ropean PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, which was held on Santorini (Thera), Greece,23–26September2001.TheconferencewasorganizedbytheDepartment of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece. This conference has been previously held in Balatofured, ¨ Hungary (2000), Barcelona, Spain (1999), Liverpool, UK (1998), and Krakow, Poland (1997). The ?rst three conferences were devoted to PVM and were held at the TU Munich, Germany (1996), the ENS Lyon, France (1995), and the University of Rome (1994). This conference has become a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message passing environments. Interaction between these groups has proved to be very useful for developing new ideas in parallel computing and for applying some of those already existent to new practical ?elds. The main topics of the meeting were evaluation and performance of PVM and MPI, extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI, algorithms using the message passing paradigm,andapplicationsinscienceandengineeringbasedonmessagepassing. The conference included one tutorial on MPI and 9 invited talks on advances in MPI, cluster computing, network computing, Grid computing, and parallel programming and programming systems. These proceedings contain papers on the 46 oral presentations together with 4 poster presentations.

• Parallel virtual machine (PVM)
• algorithm
• algorithms
• cluster computing
• distributed systems
• grid computing
• high-performance computing
• message passing interface (MPI)
• networking computing
• parallel algorithms
• parallel applications
• parallel processing
• performance evaluat

• Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Greece

  Yiannis Cotronis

• Innovative Computing Lab., Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Jack Dongarra

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