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Performance of message-passing MATLAB toolboxes

Authors:

Javier Fernández,

Antonio Cañas,

Antonio F. Díaz,

Jesús González,

Alberto PrietoAuthors Info & Claims

VECPAR'02: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on High performance computing for computational science

Pages 228 - 242

Published: 26 June 2002 Publication History

Abstract

In this work we compare some of the freely available parallel Toolboxes for Matlab, which differ in purpose and implementation details: while DP-Toolbox and MultiMatlab offer a higher-level parallel environment, the goals of PVMTB and MPITB, developed by us [7], are to closely adhere to the PVM system and MPI standard, respectively. DP-Toolbox is also based on PVM, and MultiMATLAB on MPI. These Toolboxes allow the user to build a parallel application under the rapid-prototyping Matlab environment. The differences between them are illustrated by means of a performance test and a simple case study frequently found in the literature. Thus, depending on the preferred message-passing software and the performance requirements of the application, the user can either choose a higher-level Toolbox and benefit from easier coding, or directly interface the message-passing routines and benefit from greater control and performance.

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VECPAR'02: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on High performance computing for computational science

June 2002

732 pages

ISBN:3540008527

Editors:
José M. L. M. Palma
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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A. Augusto Sousa
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science, Knoxville, TN
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Vicente Hernández
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Valencia, Spain

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Fernández JAnguita MRos EBernier J(2006)SCE toolboxes for the development of high-level parallel applicationsProceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II10.1007/11758525_70(518-525)Online publication date: 28-May-2006
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