Re: [starpu-devel] Questions about StarPU communication backends

["Yan, Jiakun" <jiakuny3@illinois.edu>]

Thanks! This is very helpful! (especially your thesis!)

Jiakun

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From: Philippe SWARTVAGHER <philippe.swartvagher@inria.fr>
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2023 3:14 PM
To: Yan, Jiakun <jiakuny3@illinois.edu>; starpu-devel@inria.fr <starpu-devel@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [starpu-devel] Questions about StarPU communication backends

 

Hello,

Le 02/10/2023 à 19:52, Yan, Jiakun a écrit :

- Does StarPU have any backends other than MPI?

Yes, there is also the NewMadeleine's native interface, see the relevant section in the documentation: https://files.inria.fr/starpu/testing/master/doc/html/MPISupport.html#Nmad

- Are there any publications describing the network layer of StarPU (e.g. how StarPU uses MPI)?

Did you have a look on publications related to MPI support in StarPU: https://starpu.gitlabpages.inria.fr/publications.html#PublicationsOnMPISupport ? The paper we usually cite to refer the distributed support of StarPU is the following: https://inria.hal.science/hal-01618526

Depending on what you want to know, you might be interested by my thesis: https://theses.hal.science/tel-03989856, especially section 1.3.3 ("Distributed StarPU") and appendix A ("Differences between MPI and NewMadeleine backends in StarPU").

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Philippe SWARTVAGHER
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