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In this paper, we analyze existing MPI benchmarking suites, focusing on two restrictions that prevent them from a wider use in applications and programming systems. The first is a single method of measurement of the execution time of MPI communications implemented by each of the suites. The second one is the design of the suites in the form of a standalone executable program that cannot be easily integrated into applications or programming systems. We present a more flexible benchmarking package, MPIBlib, that provides multiple methods of measurement, both operation-independent and operation-specific. This package can be used not only for benchmarking but also as a library in applications and programming systems for communication performance modeling and optimization of MPI operations.
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Lastovetsky, A., Rychkov, V., O’Flynn, M. (2008). MPIBlib: Benchmarking MPI Communications for Parallel Computing on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Clusters. In: Lastovetsky, A., Kechadi, T., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5205. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87475-1_32
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