McMPI: A managed-code MPI library in pure C#

Daniel Holmes; Stephen Booth

doi:10.1145/2488551.2488572

McMPI: A managed-code MPI library in pure C#

Daniel Holmes, Stephen Booth

School of Physics and Astronomy

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This paper presents McMPI, an entirely new MPI library written in C# using only safe managed-code, and performance results from low-level benchmarks demonstrating ping-pong latency and bandwidth comparable with MS-MPI and MPICH2. McMPI enables all .Net languages to use MPI messaging without introducing a dependency on unsafe non-managed code, e.g. an existing MPI library. It also takes advantage of .Net thread support to improve intra-node latency. This paper also discusses support for multiple threads in McMPI and proposes an extension to the MPI Standard that resolves current ambiguities relating to hosting multiple MPI processes in a single operating system process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Publisher	ACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	25-30
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9788461651337
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2488551.2488572
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2013 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 15 Sept 2013 → 18 Sept 2013

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Conference	20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2013
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	15/09/13 → 18/09/13

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Managed-code
MPI
Net

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