NPAC Technical Report SCCS-710
The High Performance Switch and Programming Interfaces on IBM SP2 (draft)
Gang Cheng, Podgorny Marek
Submitted May 18 1995
Abstract
This is a review report about the high performance switch and the programming
interfaces on IBM SP2 . Based on a collection of materials from many other
sources and our experience using SP2, we summarize internals of HPS
configuration and its supporting software, transport protocols, message
passing libraries, programming interfaces and software layers. Performance
data of the HPS are also collected and given in this report to help us develop
strategies of benchmarking the SP2 communication subsystems.