The Computational Plant 9th ORAP Forum Paris (CNRS)
Distributed and Parallel Systems
Massively Parallel Processors
Cplant Goals
Cplant Strategy
Why Cplant?
Cplant Approach
Conceptual Partition View
User View
System Support Hierarchy
Scalable Unit
“Virtual Machines”
Runtime Environment
Phase I - Prototype (Hawaii)
Phase II Production (Alaska)
Phase III Production (Siberia)
Phase IV (Antarctica?)
Myrinet Switch
One Switch Rack = One Plane
Cplant 2000: “Antarctica”
Cplant 2000: “Antarctica” cont.
Portals
Interface Concepts
MPP Network: Paragon and Tflops
Commodity: Myrinet
“Must” Requirements
“Will” Requirements
“Will” Requirements
“Should” requirements
Portal Addressing
Portal Address Translation
Implementing MPI
Implementing MPI
Flow Control
Portals 3.0 Status
PPT Slide