Publications of Torsten Hoefler

Torsten Hoefler, G. Bronevetsky, Brian Barrett, Bronis R. de Supinski and Andrew Lumsdaine:

Efficient MPI Support for Advanced Hybrid Programming Models

(Vol LNCS 6305, In Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI'10), presented in Stuttgart, Germany, pages 50--61, Springer, ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 078-3-642-15645-8, Sep. 2010)

Abstract

The number of multithreaded Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementations and applications is increasing rapidly. We discuss how multithreaded applications can receive messages of unknown size. As is well known, combining MPI Probe/MPI Recv is not thread-safe, but many assume that trivial workarounds exist. We discuss those workarounds and show how they fail in practice by either limiting the available parallelism unnecessarily, consuming resources in a non-scalable way, or promoting global deadlocks. In this light, we propose two fundamentally different efficient approaches to enable thread-safe messaging in MPI-2.2: fine-grained locking and matching outside of MPI. Our approaches provide thread-safe probe and receive functionality, but both have deficiencies, including performance limitations and programming complexity, that could be avoided if MPI would offer a thread-safe (stateless) interface to MPI Probe. We propose such an extension for the upcoming MPI-3 standard, provide a reference implementation, and demonstrate significant performance benefits.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{hoefler-mprobe,
  author={Torsten Hoefler and G. Bronevetsky and Brian Barrett and Bronis R. de Supinski and Andrew Lumsdaine},
  title={{Efficient MPI Support for Advanced Hybrid Programming Models}},
  year={2010},
  month={Sep.},
  pages={50--61},
  volume={LNCS 6305},
  booktitle={Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI'10)},
  location={Stuttgart, Germany},
  publisher={Springer},
  issn={0302-9743},
  isbn={078-3-642-15645-8},
  source={http://www.unixer.de/~htor/publications/},
}


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