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Rabenseifner, Rolf

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Interop technical report: additional constants for table 15.2

The Fortran sub-committee of the MPI-3 Forum would like to define the MPI Fortran interface with explicit interfaces. To ease the implementation of portable MPI libraries, it would be helpful if this interface can be defined as BIND (C). With BIND (C), the MPI library can be implemented portably across different Fortran compilers. For backward-compatibility reasons, it is essential to guarantee that existing MPI programs still run with MPI libraries based on the new Fortran 2003 compatible MPI interface specification. To achieve this goal, all existing intrinsic (with default kind parameter) and derived Fortran types should be usable as actual arguments in routines defined with BIND (C), Unfortunately, intrinsic Fortran types with default kind parameter may not be interoperable.

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Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers using HPCC and IMB Benchmarks

The HPC Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite and the Intel MPI Benchmark (IMB) are used to compare and evaluate the combined performance of processor, memory subsystem and interconnect fabric of five leading supercomputers - SGI Altix BX2, Cray XI, Cray Opteron Cluster, Dell Xeon cluster, and NEC SX-8. These five systems use five different networks (SGI NUMALINK4, Cray network, Myrinet, InfiniBand, and NEC IXS). The complete set of HPCC benchmarks are run on each of these systems. Additionally, we present Intel MPI Benchmarks (IMB) results to study the performance of 11 MPI communication functions on these systems.

Saini, Subhash↗