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Performance of Message-Passing MATLAB Toolboxes

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High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002 (VECPAR 2002)

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In this work we compare some of the freely available parallel Toolboxes for MATLAB, which differ in purpose and implementation details: while DP-Toolbox and MultiMATLAB offer a higher-level parallel environment, the goals of PVMTB and MPITB, developed by us [7], are to closely adhere to the PVM system and MPI standard, respectively. DP-Toolbox is also based on PVM, and MultiMATLAB on MPI. These Toolboxes allow the user to build a parallel application under the rapid-prototyping MATLAB environment. The differences between them are illustrated by means of a performance test and a simple case study frequently found in the literature. Thus, depending on the preferred message-passing software and the performance requirements of the application, the user can either choose a higher-level Toolbox and benefit from easier coding, or directly interface the message-passing routines and benefit from greater control and performance. Topics: Problem Solving Environments, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cluster and Grid Computing.

Supported in part by the Spanish MCYT TIC2000-1348pro ject.

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    Javier Fernández, Antonio Cañas, Antonio F. Díaz, Jesús González, Julio Ortega & Alberto Prieto

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Fernández, J., Cañas, A., Díaz, A.F., González, J., Ortega, J., Prieto, A. (2003). Performance of Message-Passing MATLAB Toolboxes. In: Palma, J.M.L.M., Sousa, A.A., Dongarra, J., Hernández, V. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002. VECPAR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36569-9_14

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