MPICH-G2: A Grid-Enabled Implementation of the Message Passing Interface

Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the heterogeneous environment. As part of an investigation of these issues, we have developed MPICH-G2, a Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) that allows a user to run MPI programs across multiple computers, at the same or different sites, using the same commands that would be used on a parallel computer. This library extends the Argonne MPICH implementation of MPI to use services provided by the Globus Toolkit for authentication, authorization, resource allocation, executable staging, and I/O, as well as for process creation, monitoring, and control. Various performance-critical operations, including startup and collective operations, are configured to exploit network topology information. The library also exploits MPI constructs for performance management; for example, the MPI com...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foster
• Keywords: Argonne MPICH Implementation, CORR 2002, Education, MPI Programs, Network Topology