NPAC/APT Project 1 - "Benchmark IBM SP2's Communication Subsystem Over HPS"

Review of the HPS and Programming Interface on SP2

Benchmarking Point-to-Point Communication over HPS

• In MPL Protocol
  • Benchamark Report
  • Source MPL code
    
• In TCP/IP Protocol
  • Benchmark Report
  • Source C code
    • Single Socket model
    • Multi-socket model

Benchmarking SP2's Communication Subsystem over HPS with APT Proposed Multi-stage Benchmark Model

• The Benchmark Model
• In MPL Protocol
  • Benchamark Report
  • Source MPL code
• In TCP/IP Protocol
  • Benchmark Report
    • Plot1: An example of blocksize vs bandwidth.
    • Plot2: Sink and disk modes for nhost=8.
    • Plot3: Bandwidth scalability over nphase.
  • Implementation description
  • Benchmark Architecture
  • Source C code
• Comparison summary between TCP and MPL Performance
• Comparison Plot
• on-line benchmark demo (use apt/npacapt to access)