Fast Barrier Synchronization for InfiniBand

Barrier Synchronization is crucial for many parallel systems. This talk introduces different synchronization mechanisms and demonstrates new approaches to leverage special hardware properties of InfiniBand to lower the Barrier latency.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoefler, Torsten
Other Authors: Rehm, Wolfgang
Language:English
Published: Technische Universität Chemnitz 2006
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200600019
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Summary:Barrier Synchronization is crucial for many parallel systems. This talk introduces different synchronization mechanisms and demonstrates new approaches to leverage special hardware properties of InfiniBand to lower the Barrier latency.