Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi From: Joachim Worringen Subject: Re: MPI Implementation on VIA ? Organization: Chair for Operating Systems, RWTH Aachen Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:44:24 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <35349D97.4ADFC667@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de> Greg Lindahl wrote: > > Martin Audet writes: > > > Did anyone heard about an MPI implementation using that technology ? > > VIA is very similar in philosophy to both U-Net and Myricom's GM > interface for myrinet, and probably other low-overhead user-level > intfaces. Not to forget the various SCI-based solutions. Concerning MPI, SCALI ( http://www.scali.com ) has a very low-latency MPI-Implementation called ScaMPI, which achieves latencies of well less than 10 microseconds. However, we use SCI for shared-memory-programming. Joachim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ : Joachim Worringen, Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme |_|_`__ : RWTH Aachen, Kopernikusstr. 16, D-52056 Aachen | |__) : Tel. : +49-241/80-7609 | Fax : +49-241/8888-339 |__)S : e-Mail : joachim@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de