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The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) from Intel Labs is an experimental CPU that integrates 48 cores. As its name suggests, it is a distributed memory system on a chip. In typical configurations, the available memory is divided equally across the cores. Message passing is supported by means of an on-die Message Passing Buffer (MPB). The memory organization and hardware features of the SCC make it an interesting platform for evaluating parallel programming models. In this work, an MPI implementation is optimized and extended to support the invasive programming model; the invasive model’s main idea is to allow for resource aware programming. The result is a library that provides resource awareness through extensions to MPI, while keeping its features and compatibility.
Support for this work was provided by the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 89: Invasive Computing (InvasIC)[12].
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Ureña, I.A.C., Riepen, M., Konow, M., Gerndt, M. (2012). Invasive MPI on Intel’s Single-Chip Cloud Computer. In: Herkersdorf, A., Römer, K., Brinkschulte, U. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2012. ARCS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28293-5_7
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