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We describe a compact, thread-safe communication library for cluster computing. The library provides the most used communication functions, such as point-to-point send/receives and broadcast, scatter and gather collective operations. In addition, our library allows processes running on different processing elements of a cluster to share portions of memory. We show experimental results that demonstrate the library outperforms classical implementations of MPI (mpich) in collective operations and achieves comparable performance in point-to-point communications on Beowulf class workstation clusters.
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Danelutto, M., Pucci, C. (2000). A Compact, Thread-Safe Communication Library for Efficient Cluster Computing. In: Bubak, M., Afsarmanesh, H., Hertzberger, B., Williams, R. (eds) High Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45492-6_40
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