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pioman: a pthread-based Multithreaded Communication Engine

Abstract

Recent cluster architectures include dozens of cores per node, with all cores sharing the network resources. To program such architectures, hybrid models mixing MPI+threads, and in particular MPI+OpenMP are gaining popularity. This imposes new requirements on communication libraries, such as the need for MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE level of multi-threading support. Moreover, the high number of cores brings new op-portunities to parallelize communication libraries, so as to have proper background progression of communication and commu-nication/computation overlap. In this paper, we present pioman, a generic framework to be used by MPI implementations, that brings seamless asynchronous progression of communication by opportunistically using available cores. It uses system threads and thus is composable with any runtime system used for multithreading. Through various benchmarks, we demonstrate that our pioman-based MPI implementation exhibits very good properties regarding overlap, progression, and multithreading, and outperforms state-of-art MPI implementations.
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hal-01087775 , version 1 (26-11-2014)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01087775 , version 1

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Alexandre Denis. pioman: a pthread-based Multithreaded Communication Engine. Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Mar 2015, Turku, Finland. ⟨hal-01087775⟩
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