Performance Analysis of Java Message-Passing Libraries on Fast Ethernet, Myrinet and SCI Clusters

The use of Java for parallel programming on clusters according to the message-passing paradigm is an attractive choice. In this case, the overall application performance will largely depend on the performance of the underlying Java message-passing library. This paper evaluates, models and compares the performance of MPI-like point-to-point and collective communication primitives from selected Java message-passing implementations on clusters with different interconnection networks. We have developed our own micro-benchmark suite to characterize the message-passing communication overhead and thus derive analytical latency models.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CLUSTER
• Authors: Guillermo L. Taboada, Juan Touriño, Ramon Doallo
• Keywords: CLUSTER 2003, Cluster Computing, Java Message-passing Implementations, Java Message-passing Library, Message-passing