Index

Symbols

-, 1

A

Amdahl's Law, 1

array distribution

block, 1

cyclic, 1

local, 1

array mapping, 1

B

backplane bandwidth, 1

bandwidth, 1

bisection bandwidth, 1, 2, 3

blocking sends, 1, 2, 3

buffer congestion, 1

buffering, 1, 2

C

cache use efficiency, 1

Cluster Runtime Environment (CRE), 1

collective operations, 1, 2

collocating processes, 1, 2, 3

communication costs, 1, 2

compiler switches, 1, 2

-xalias, 1

-xarch, 1

concurrency, 1

cyclic message passing, 1

D

data movement, within a process, 1

deadlock, 1

dedicated access, 1

descheduling, 1, 2

distributed-memory programming, 1

E

environment variables, summary of, 1

external cache, 1

F

full connections, 1

G

gprof, 1

I

interconnects, among nodes, 1

L

L2 cache, 1

latency, 1

lazy connections, 1

LD_LIBRARY_PATH, 1

libsunperf, 1

load

background, 1

defined, 1

load balancing, 1, 2, 3, 4

Load-Sharing Facility suite, 1

M

mapping processes to nodes, 1, 2

memory bandwidth, 1

memory latency, 1

mpCC, 1

mpcc, 1

mpf90, 1

MPI profiling interface (PMPI), 1

MPI web page, 1

multithreaded MPI jobs, 1

N

nonuniform memory architecture, 1

P

pipelined messages, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

polling, 1, 2, 3, 4

postboxes, 1, 2, 3, 4

problem size, reducing, 1

process grid characteristics

number of processes, 1

order, 1

rank, 1

rank sequence, 1

process grids, runtime mapping of, 1

profiling

MPI interface, 1

Solaris utilities, 1

profiling alternatives, compared, 1

programming practices, general, 1

R

remote shared memory (RSM), 1

rendezvous protocol, 1, 2, 3

S

S3L routines, summary of performance guidelines, 1

S3L Toolkit, 1

ScaLAPACK, 1

send-buffer pools, 1, 2, 3

serializaiton, reduction of, 1

shared-memory array allocation, 1

shared-memory programming, 1

spin behavior, 1, 2

Sun Performance Library, 1

symmetric multiprocessor (SMP), 1

synchronization, 1, 2

T

TCP connections, 1

TCP retransmission of data, 1

throttled communications, 1

timer calls, 1

U

UltraSPARC processor, 1, 2

V

VAMPIR, 1

Y

yielding, 1, 2