CCL: a portable and tunable collective communication library for scalable parallel computers

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 154 - 164
• Main Authors: Bala, V., Bruck, J., Cypher, R., Elustondo, P., Ho, A., Ching-Tien Ho, Kipnis, S., Snir, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos, CA IEEE 01.02.1995; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Applied sciences; Broadcasting; Computer interfaces; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Concurrent computing; Exact sciences and technology; Libraries; Parallel programming; Portable computers; Scattering; Software; Software engineering; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Teleprocessing networks. Isdn; Parallel programming; Parallel system; Program library; User interface; Semantics; Parallel processing; Message transmission; Communication

A collective communication library for parallel computers includes frequently used operations such as broadcast, reduce, scatter, gather, concatenate, synchronize, and shift. Such a library provides users with a convenient programming interface, efficient communication operations, and the advantage...