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ARMCI: A portable remote memory copy library for distributed array libraries and compiler run-time systems

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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This paper introduces a new portable communication library called ARMCI. ARMCI provides one-sided communication capabilities for distributed array libraries and compiler run-time systems. It supports remote memory copy, accumulate, and synchronization operations optimized for non-contiguous data transfers including strided and generalized UNIX I/O vector interfaces. The library has been employed in the Global Arrays shared memory programming toolkit and Adlib, a Parallel Compiler Run-time Consortium run-time system.

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 99352, Richland, WA

    Jarek Nieplocha

  2. Northeastern Parallel Architecture Center, Syracuse University, USA

    Bryan Carpenter

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Nieplocha, J., Carpenter, B. (1999). ARMCI: A portable remote memory copy library for distributed array libraries and compiler run-time systems. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097937

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