[Beowulf] dynamic repackaging of messages
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Peter St. John peter.st.john at gmail.comThu Jul 26 12:16:18 PDT 2007
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I was just reading Jeff Layton's networking-for-HPC article in Linux Mag http://www.linux-mag.com/launchpad/business-class-hpc/build/3507 and it got me thinking if it would be feasible for a parallel application to distinguish two sorts of messages: urgent (e.g. computing the gravitational effect of my molecule on a remote node's molecule) or leisurely (e.g. checkpointing a statistical synopsis to disk). Then the NIC, or the daemon buffering for the NIC, could buffer "leisurely" items for collascing into very large messages, while shooting "urgent" messages immediately. This might reduce interupts to the minimum needed by the nature of the app. Does this sound workable? does something already provide such a feature, and does it sound desirable if not? I haven't programmed anything in MPI yet but didn't seem immediate. Thanks, Peter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20070726/c470be32/attachment.html
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