Abstract
A Comparative Performance Study of Fine-Grain Multi-threading on Distributed
Memory Machines
Prasad Kakulavarapu, Christopher J. Morrone, Kevin B. Theobald, José
Nelson Amaral, and Guang R. Gao
We present a comparative study of the implementation of the
Efficient Architecture for Running THreads (EARTH) on IBM SP-2,
Beowulf, and the MANNA machine. EARTH is a programming,
architecture, and execution model that implements fine grain
multi-threading. Each platform presents different constraints
on
the interaction between the EARTH runtime system and the network.
We characterize the performance in each implementation by measuring
the cost of EARTH operations, such as the exchange of synchronization
signals, the spawning of threads, and data transfers, and also
by comparing
speedup curves for a set of applications.
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