Message Passing Support on StarT-Voyager

• Main Authors: Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Arvind, Larry Rudolph
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Computer Society 1998
• Subjects: Arctic; Nes; Nes’
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.18.5489; http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/pubs/ps/MIT-LCS-TM-417.ps.Z

No single message passing mechanism can efficiently support all types of communication that commonly occur in most parallel or distributed programs. MIT's StarT-Voyager, a hybrid message passing/shared memory parallel machine, provides four message passing mechanisms to achieve high performance...