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A buffered-mode MPI implementation for the cell BE (TM) processor
Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Vol.4487, pp.603-610
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 4487, Springer Nature
01/01/2007
Web of Science ID: WOS:000247062800080
Abstract
The Cell Broadband Engine (TM) is a heterogeneous multi-core architecture developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. It has eight computation intensive cores (SPEs) with a small local memory, and a single PowerPC core. The SPEs have a total peak single precision performance of 204.8 Gflops/s, and 14.64 Gflops/s in double precision. Therefore, the Cell has a good potential for high performance computing. But the unconventional architecture makes it difficult to program. We propose an implementation of the core features of MPI as a solution to this problem. This can enable a large class of existing applications to be ported to the Cell. Our MPI implementation attains bandwidth up to 6.01 GB/s, and latency as small as 0.41 mu s. The significance of our work is in demonstrating the effectiveness of intra-Cell MPI, consequently enabling the porting of MPI applications to the Cell with minimal effort.
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- Title
- A buffered-mode MPI implementation for the cell BE (TM) processor
- Publication Details
- Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing China, May 27-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I, Vol.4487, pp.603-610
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science; volume 4487
- Copyright
- © 2007 Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Identifiers
- WOS:000247062800080; 99380178096206600
- Academic Unit
- Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering ; Computer Science
- Language
- English