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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2007
Dong Chen, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mark E. Giampapa, Irvington, NY (US);
Philip Heidelberger, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Burkhard Steinmacher-burow, Esslingen, DE;
Pavlos Vranas, Danville, CA (US);
Dong Chen, Croton on Hudson, NY (US);
Alan G. Gara, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mark E. Giampapa, Irvington, NY (US);
Philip Heidelberger, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow, Esslingen, DE;
Pavlos Vranas, Danville, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A parallel computer system is constructed as a network of interconnected compute nodes to operate a global message-passing application for performing communications across the network. Each of the compute nodes includes one or more individual processors with memories which run local instances of the global message-passing application operating at each compute node to carry out local processing operations independent of processing operations carried out at other compute nodes. Each compute node also includes a DMA engine constructed to interact with the application via Injection FIFO Metadata describing multiple Injection FIFOs where each Injection FIFO may containing an arbitrary number of message descriptors in order to process messages with a fixed processing overhead irrespective of the number of message descriptors included in the Injection FIFO.