Section: New Software and Platforms

NewMadeleine

Keywords: High-performance calculation - MPI communication

Functional Description

NewMadeleine is the fourth incarnation of the Madeleine communication library. The new architecture aims at enabling the use of a much wider range of communication flow optimization techniques. Its design is entirely modular: drivers and optimization strategies are dynamically loadable software components, allowing experimentations with multiple approaches or on multiple issues with regard to processing communication flows.

The optimizing scheduler SchedOpt targets applications with irregular, multi-flow communication schemes such as found in the increasingly common application conglomerates made of multiple programming environments and coupled pieces of code, for instance. SchedOpt itself is easily extensible through the concepts of optimization strategies (what to optimize for, what the optimization goal is) expressed in terms of tactics (how to optimize to reach the optimization goal). Tactics themselves are made of basic communication flows operations such as packet merging or reordering.

The communication library is fully multi-threaded through its close integration with PIOMan. It manages concurrent communication operations from multiple libraries and from multiple threads. Its MPI implementation Mad-MPI fully supports the MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE multi-threading level.

• Participants: Alexandre Denis, Nathalie Furmento, Raymond Namyst and Clement Foyer

• Contact: Alexandre Denis

• URL: http://pm2.gforge.inria.fr/newmadeleine/