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This paper presents a method to efficiently place MPI processes on multicore machines. Since MPI implementations often feature efficient supports for both shared-memory and network communication, an adequate placement policy is a crucial step to improve applications performance. As a case study, we show the results obtained for several NAS computing kernels and explain how the policy influences overall performance. In particular, we found out that a policy merely increasing the intranode communication ratio is not enough and that cache utilization is also an influential factor. A more sophisticated policy (eg. one taking into account the architecture’s memory structure) is required to observe performance improvements.
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Mercier, G., Clet-Ortega, J. (2009). Towards an Efficient Process Placement Policy for MPI Applications in Multicore Environments. In: Ropo, M., Westerholm, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5759. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_17
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