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Dynamic Communicators in MPI

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OSTI ID:982149
This paper describes a proposal to add support for dynamic communicators to the MPI standard. This adds the ability to grow or shrink a specified communicator, under well specified circumstances. The goal is to make it possible for a new class of applications - long-running, mission-critical, loosely coupled applications, running in a highly dynamic environment - to use MPI libraries for their communications needs, and to enable HPC applications to adjust to changing system resources. Implementation analysis indicates that performance impact on existing high-performance MPI applications should be minimal, or non-existent. The changes to MPI implementations are expected to be well compartmentalized.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
982149
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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