Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99) IV, pages 1898-1904
Abstract: In this paper we evaluate the MPI environments currently available for Windows NT on the Intel IA32 and Compaq/DEC Alpha architectures. We present benchmark results for low-level communication and for the NAS Parallel Benchmarks to allow comparison to other systems, but our primary interest is determining real application performance and robustness in production cluster environments. For this we use PAFEC-FE, a large FORTRAN code for finite-element analysis. We present results from three MPI implementations, two architectures, and three networking technologies (10 Mbit/s and 100 Mbit/s Ethernet and 1 Gbit/s Myrinet),
@article{ takeda99assessment,
author = "K. Takeda and N. K. Allsopp and J. C. Hardwick and P. C. Macey and D. A. Nicole and S. J. Cox and D. J. Lancaster",
title = "An Assessment of MPI Environments for Windows NT",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications",
pages = "1898--1904",
year = "1999",
url = "citeseer.nj.nec.com/takeda99assessment.html" }