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Title: The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0

Abstract

This report presents a specification for the Portals 3.0 message passing interface. Portals 3.0 is intended to allow scalable, high-performance network communication between nodes of a parallel computing system. Specifically, it is designed to support a parallel computing platform composed of clusters of commodity workstations connected by a commodity system area network fabric. In addition, Portals 3.0 is well suited to massively parallel processing and embedded systems. Portals 3.0 represents an adoption of the data movement layer developed for massively parallel processing platforms, such as the 4500-node Intel TeraFLOPS machine.

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Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (US); Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (US)
Sponsoring Org.:
US Department of Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
15154
Report Number(s):
SAND99-2959
TRN: US200221%%425
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1 Dec 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; COMMUNICATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SPECIFICATIONS

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BRIGHTWELL,RONALD B., HUDSON,TRAMMELL B., RIESEN,ROLF E., and MACCABE,ARTHUR B. The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0. United States: N. p., 1999. Web. doi:10.2172/15154.
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BRIGHTWELL,RONALD B., HUDSON,TRAMMELL B., RIESEN,ROLF E., & MACCABE,ARTHUR B. The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0. United States. doi:10.2172/15154.
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BRIGHTWELL,RONALD B., HUDSON,TRAMMELL B., RIESEN,ROLF E., and MACCABE,ARTHUR B. Wed . "The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0". United States. doi:10.2172/15154. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/15154.
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@article{osti_15154,
title = {The Portals 3.0 Message Passing Interface Revision 1.0},
author = {BRIGHTWELL,RONALD B. and HUDSON,TRAMMELL B. and RIESEN,ROLF E. and MACCABE,ARTHUR B.},
abstractNote = {This report presents a specification for the Portals 3.0 message passing interface. Portals 3.0 is intended to allow scalable, high-performance network communication between nodes of a parallel computing system. Specifically, it is designed to support a parallel computing platform composed of clusters of commodity workstations connected by a commodity system area network fabric. In addition, Portals 3.0 is well suited to massively parallel processing and embedded systems. Portals 3.0 represents an adoption of the data movement layer developed for massively parallel processing platforms, such as the 4500-node Intel TeraFLOPS machine.},
doi = {10.2172/15154},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1999}
}
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