NDLI: Light-weight communications on Intel's single-chip cloud computer processor

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Mattson, Timothy G. Haas, Werner van der Wijngaart, Rob F.
Abstract	Many-core chips are changing the way high-performance computing systems are built and programmed. As it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain cache coherence across many cores, manufacturers are exploring designs that do not feature any cache coherence between cores. Communications on such chips are naturally implemented using message passing, which makes them resemble clusters, but with an important difference. Special hardware can be provided that supports very fast on-chip communications, reducing latency and increasing bandwidth. We present one such chip, the Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC). This is an experimental processor, created by Intel Labs. We describe two communication libraries available on SCC: RCCE and Rckmb. RCCE is a light-weight, minimal library for writing message passing parallel applications. Rckmb provides the data link layer for running network services such as TCP/IP. Both utilize SCC's non-cache-coherent shared memory for transferring data between cores without needing to go off-chip. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of RCCE and Rckmb. To compare their performance, we consider simple benchmarks run with RCCE, and MPI over TCP/IP.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	83
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635980
DOI	10.1145/1945023.1945033
Journal	ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OPSR)
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1975-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Message passing libraries Many-core chips Network protocols for on-die networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems

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