Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Skjellum, Anthony

Committee Member

Reese, Donna S.

Committee Member

Bridges, Susan M.

Date of Degree

12-13-2002

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Computer Science

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Engineering

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

The Real-Time Message Passing Interface (MPI/RT) is an emerging real-time communications middleware standard for distributed real-time applications. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de facto standard for high performance parallel application development. In this thesis, we describe how MPI/RT with best effort quality of service can be used as an alternative for MPI. Mercury Computer Systems' RACE embedded parallel computer is used as the platform for comparison of design and performance of these two standards. The main advantages MPI/RT has over MPI are its explicit support for communication channels and its emphasis on early binding. Design and implementation of best effort MPI/RT on Mercury is described and its performance is compared with MPI in order to illustrate how MPI/RT features allow implementations to exploit the underlying platform more optimally. The results for the benchmarks show that MPI/RT outperforms MPI in almost all cases examined.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/19290

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