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International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03)
p. 165a
A Distributed Hierarchical Programming Model for Heterogeneous Cluster of SMPs
Thomas Rauber, Universität Bayreuth
Gudula Runger, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Sven Trautmann, Technische Universität Chemnitz
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DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213307
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Cluster systems are getting increasingly popular since they provide large computational power at a reasonable price. The cluster nodes are often SMPs with a small number of processors that can access a shared address space. The nodes are connected by a network like Myrinet or SCI, so the global address space is distributed. In this paper, we present a new programming model for such clusters of SMPs. The model allows the programmer to adapt his program to the two-level structure of the address space by providing a micro-level and a macro-level. The micro-level allows a thread formulation of multiprocessor tasks that are executed within a node of the cluster system. The macro-level allows the hierarchical structuring of multiprocessor-tasks according to the structure of the algorithm using message passing for data-exchange. We demonstrate the usefulness of the approach by runtime tests on several cluster systems with different node architectures and different interconnection networks.
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Citation:
Thomas Rauber, Gudula Runger, Sven Trautmann,
"A Distributed Hierarchical Programming Model for Heterogeneous Cluster of SMPs,"
ipdps,
p. 165a,
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03),
2003
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