Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: lauria@orange-utan.cs.uiuc.edu (Mario Lauria)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Myrinet Fast Messages
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: 15 Mar 1995 05:45:59 GMT
Message-ID: <3ka160$9u@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

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                        | FM - The Fast Messages library |
                        | is now available!              |
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The FM library version 1.0, an implementation of the Illinois Fast Messages
interface, contains fast messaging primitives which provide low latency and
high bandwidth for short messages.

FM has been implemented on several platforms (the Cray T3D and now, workstation
clusters interconnected by a high-speed Myrinet network) and provides
low-latency, high-bandwidth communication for messages as short as 4 to 32
words.  Performance is an order of magnitude better than the "standard"
messaging layers for each platform; message overhead is only 3 microseconds on
T3D FM and 8 microseconds on Myrinet FM.  The FM messaging layer is a rather
simple set of primitives, appropriate for programmers as well as implementors
of communications libraries, parallel compilers, and run-time systems.

Release 1.0 of the library is now available from our WWW server:

            http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/projects/communication.html

The release contains everything necessary to run Fast Messages, specifically
the library (libFM.a), and an include file (fm.h) which contains the function
prototypes, as well as a usage manual.  Myrinet FM has been tested on
SPARCstation 20s and SPARCclassics (sun4m architecture) as well as on
SPARCstation 2s (sun4c architecture) running SunOS 4.1.3.  However, it should
also work on other SPARC-based platforms.

Please contact us at <fast-messages@red-herring.cs.uiuc.edu> if you have any
questions, comments or problems.


