Date of Award
12-1996
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
Dr. Ajay Gutpa
Second Advisor
Ben Pinkowski
Third Advisor
Elise de Doncker
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
PVM enables the use of network of workstations for parallel and distributed computation. PVM provides the message-passing primitives which include those for point-to-point communication and collective communications. The current approaches for the collective communication operations in PVM use algorithms that do not exhibit good performance.
In this thesis, we develop new approaches to improve the performance of collective communication operations in PVM by using shared memory with IP broadcasting and IP multicasting mechanism. We have implemented these approaches and have run extensive tests. This report shows the comparison of the time used by current approaches and our approaches.
Recommended Citation
Mathawaphan, Chirapol, "An Efficient Collective Communication Library for PVM" (1996). Masters Theses. 4242.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/4242