The NX message passing interface
1994; Elsevier BV; Volume: 20; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0167-8191(94)90023-x
ISSN1872-7336
Autores Tópico(s)Interconnection Networks and Systems
ResumoThe challenge in designing a message passing interface for massively parallel distributed memory supercomputers is to balance high performance with usability. The NX interface and its implementations represent successful achievement of that balance in a highly evolved, full featured, high performance interface for parallel applications. It is the vendor-supplied programming interface on Intel multicomputers, implementing the typed send/receive model of multicomputer message passing. Central to this paper is a section on the philosophy behind the NX design, which explains design tradeoffs and why we think they result in a successful interface.
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