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Cray Red Storm is a new distributed memory massively parallel computing platform designed to scale to tens of thousands of nodes. Red Storm has a custom network designed around the Cray SeaStar network interface and router. In this paper, we present an evaluation of three different MPI implementations for Red Storm: the vendor-supported MPICH2 implementation, and two other implementations based on MPICH 1.2.6. We discuss the differences in these implementations and show how various implementation strategies impact performance and scalability.
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Brightwell, R. (2005). A Comparison of Three MPI Implementations for Red Storm. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_54
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