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Title: Reproducible measurements of MPI performance characteristics.

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OSTI ID:11859

In this paper we describe the difficulties inherent in making accurate, reproducible measurements of message-passing performance. We describe some of the mistakes often made in attempting such measurements and the consequences of such mistakes. We describe mpptest, a suite of performance measurement programs developed at Argonne National Laboratory, that attempts to avoid such mistakes and obtain reproducible measures of MPI performance that can be useful to both MPI implementers and MPI application writers. We include a number of illustrative examples of its use.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
11859
Report Number(s):
ANL/MCS/CP-99345; TRN: AH200118%%248
Resource Relation:
Conference: DuroPVM/MPI '99, Barcelona (ES), 09/26/1999--09/29/1999; Other Information: PBD: 25 Jun 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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