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mpiJava: An object-oriented java interface to MPI

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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A basic prerequisite for parallel programming is a good communication API. The recent interest in using Java for scientific and engineering application has led to several international efforts to produce a message passing interface to support parallel computation. In this paper we describe and then discuss the syntax, functionality and performance of one such interface, mpiJava, an object-oriented Java interface to MPI. We first discuss the design of the mpiJava API and the issues associated with its development. We then more on to briefly outline the steps necessary to ‘port’ mpiJava onto a range of operating systems, including Windows NT, Linux and Solaris. In the second part of the paper we present and then discuss some performance measurements made of communications bandwidth and latency to compare mpiJava on these systems. Finally, we summarise our experiences and then briefly mention work that we plan to undertake.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Portsmouth, PO4 8JF, Southsea, Hants, UK

    Mark Baker

  2. NPAC at Syracuse University, NY 13244, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Sung Hoon Ko & Sang Lim

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Baker, M., Carpenter, B., Fox, G., Hoon Ko, S., Lim, S. (1999). mpiJava: An object-oriented java interface to MPI. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097964

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