Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication

Takeshi Nanri; Takeshi Soga; Yuichiro Ajima; Yoshiyuki Morie; Hiroaki Honda; Taizo Kobayashi; Toshiya Takami; Shinji Sumimoto

doi:10.1109/PDP.2015.83

Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication

Takeshi Nanri, Takeshi Soga, Yuichiro Ajima, Yoshiyuki Morie, Hiroaki Honda, Taizo Kobayashi, Toshiya Takami, Shinji Sumimoto

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Abstract

Though the size of the system is getting larger towards exa-scale computation, the amount of available memory on computing nodes is expected to remain the same or to decrease. Therefore, memory efficiency is becoming an important issue for achieving scalability. This paper pointed out the problem of memory-inefficiency in the de-facto standard parallel programming model, Message Passing Interface (MPI). To solve this problem, the channel interface was introduced in the paper. This interface enables the programmers to appropriately allocate and de-allocate channels so that the program consumes just-enough amount of memory for communication. In addition to that, by limiting the message transfer supported by a channel as simple as possible, the memory consumption and the overhead for handling messages with this interface can be minimal. This paper showed a sample implementation of this interface. Then, the memory efficiency of the implementation is examined by the models of the memory consumption and the performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015
Editors	Johan Lilius, Masoud Daneshtalab, Mats Brorsson, Ville Leppanen, Marco Aldinucci
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	177-181
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479984909
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2015.83
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015 - Turku, Finland Duration: Mar 4 2015 → Mar 6 2015

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Other	23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Turku
Period	3/4/15 → 3/6/15

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Nanri, T., Soga, T., Ajima, Y., Morie, Y., Honda, H., Kobayashi, T., Takami, T., & Sumimoto, S. (2015). Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication. In J. Lilius, M. Daneshtalab, M. Brorsson, V. Leppanen, & M. Aldinucci (Eds.), Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015 (pp. 177-181). Article 7092717 (Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2015.83

Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication. / Nanri, Takeshi; Soga, Takeshi; Ajima, Yuichiro et al.
Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015. ed. / Johan Lilius; Masoud Daneshtalab; Mats Brorsson; Ville Leppanen; Marco Aldinucci. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 177-181 7092717 (Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Nanri, T, Soga, T, Ajima, Y, Morie, Y, Honda, H, Kobayashi, T, Takami, T & Sumimoto, S 2015, Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication. in J Lilius, M Daneshtalab, M Brorsson, V Leppanen & M Aldinucci (eds), Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015., 7092717, Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 177-181, 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015, Turku, Finland, 3/4/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2015.83

Nanri T, Soga T, Ajima Y, Morie Y, Honda H, Kobayashi T et al. Channel interface: A primitive model for memory efficient communication. In Lilius J, Daneshtalab M, Brorsson M, Leppanen V, Aldinucci M, editors, Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2015. p. 177-181. 7092717. (Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015). doi: 10.1109/PDP.2015.83

Nanri, Takeshi ; Soga, Takeshi ; Ajima, Yuichiro et al. / Channel interface : A primitive model for memory efficient communication. Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015. editor / Johan Lilius ; Masoud Daneshtalab ; Mats Brorsson ; Ville Leppanen ; Marco Aldinucci. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 177-181 (Proceedings - 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2015).

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