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%T Process\-Oriented Collective Operations
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%A John Markus Bjørndalen, Adam T. Sampson
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%E Peter H. Welch, S. Stepney, F.A.C Polack, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Alistair A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, Jan F. Broenink, Adam T. Sampson
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2008
%X Distributing process\-oriented programs across a cluster of
machines
requires careful attention to the effects of
network latency. The
MPI standard, widely used for cluster
computation, defines a number
of collective operations:
efficient, reusable algorithms for
performing operations
among a group of machines in the cluster.
In this paper, we
describe our techniques for implementing MPI
communication
patterns in process\-oriented languages, and how we
have
used them to implement collective operations in PyCSP
and
occam\-π on top of an asynchronous messaging
framework. We show how
to make use of collective operations
in distributed processoriented
applications. We also show
how the process\-oriented model can be used
to increase
concurrency in existing collective operation algorithms.