NDLI: A practical communication cost formula for users of message passing systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wack, A.P.
Copyright Year	1994
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA (Wack, A.P.)
Abstract	When working on parallel programming problems it is important to have a good model of the computation and communication costs. We present a case for a model of communication based on our experiments with C-Linda. In this model the overhead (latency) of a communication plays a central role. We present some experimental results of running a simple C-Linda program on several workstations connected by Ethernet and FDDI communications networks. We provide a formula for predicting C-Linda performance given performance measures for the workstation and for the network. We show that this formula performs well in predicting the results of our experiments. We then discuss a model of message passing communication based on this formula, and some of its implications. Additionally we briefly discuss some work that we are doing that uses this model.
Starting Page	418
Ending Page	425
File Size	611164
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818664274
DOI	10.1109/SPDP.1994.346139
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1994-10-26
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Costs Message passing Workstations Parallel programming Computational modeling Concurrent computing Computational efficiency Delay Ethernet networks FDDI
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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