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Optimization of Collective Communication Operations in MPICH

R. Thakur, R. Rabenseifner, and W. Gropp, “Optimization of Collective Communication Operations in MPICH,” Int’l Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, (19)1:49-66, Spring 2005. (ps, pdf)

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The Impact of File Systems on MPI-IO Scalability

R. Latham, R. Ross, and R. Thakur, “The Impact of File Systems on MPI-IO Scalability,” in Proc. of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2004), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes … Continue reading

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Efficient Implementation of MPI-2 Passive One-Sided Communication on InfiniBand Clusters

W. Jiang, J. Liu, H. Jin, D. K. Panda, D. Buntinas, R. Thakur, and W. Gropp, “Efficient Implementation of MPI-2 Passive One-Sided Communication on InfiniBand Clusters,” in Proc. of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2004), Recent … Continue reading

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Minimizing Synchronization Overhead in the Implementation of MPI One-Sided Communication

R. Thakur, W. Gropp, and B. Toonen, “Minimizing Synchronization Overhead in the Implementation of MPI One-Sided Communication,” in Proc. of the 11th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2004), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, … Continue reading

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RFS: Efficient and Flexible Remote File Access for MPI-IO

J. Lee, X. Ma, R. Ross, R. Thakur, and M. Winslett, “RFS: Efficient and Flexible Remote File Access for MPI-IO,” in Proc. of the IEEE Int’l Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2004), September 2004. (pdf)

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High Performance MPI-2 One-Sided Communication over Infiniband

W. Jiang, J. Liu, H. Jin, D. K. Panda, W. Gropp, and R. Thakur, “High Performance MPI-2 One-Sided Communication over Infiniband,” in Proc. of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004), April 2004. (pdf)

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Improving the Performance of Collective Operations in MPICH

R. Thakur and W. Gropp, “Improving the Performance of Collective Operations in MPICH,” in Proc. of the 10th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2003), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Lecture Notes in Computer … Continue reading

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Improving the Performance of MPI Derived Datatypes by Optimizing Memory-Access Cost

S. Byna, W. Gropp, X. Sun, and R. Thakur, “Improving the Performance of MPI Derived Datatypes by Optimizing Memory-Access Cost,” in Proc. of the IEEE Int’l Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2003), December 2003, pp. 412-419. (ps, pdf)

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Blocking vs. Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing for Large-Scale Fault Tolerant MPI

D. Buntinas, C. Coti, T. Hérault, P. Lemarinier, L. Pilard, A. Rezmerita, E. Rodriguez and F. Cappello, “Blocking vs. Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing for Large-Scale Fault Tolerant MPI”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 73-84. (pdf)

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