One-Sided Communication Operations

In one-sided communication, one process controls the exchange of data with another process, and data exchange does not require cooperation of the sending and receiving processes. One-sided communication can be implemented via remote direct memory access, which enables a process to access (read from or write to) the memory of another process without explicit participation from the process whose memory is accessed. 

Various libraries providing differing levels of support for one-sided communication operations are currently available for parallel application development. Notably, the Aggregate Remote Memory Copy Interface, ARMCI, 

Algorithms and cost analyses for a number of collective communication operations have been discussed in some detail by Grama et al. A comprehensive performance comparison of implementations of MPI on different network interconnects (InfiniBand, Myrinet , and Quadrics ), including both micro-level benchmarks (determination of latency and bandwidth) and application-level benchmarks, has been carried out by Liu et al. A discussion of the optimization of collective communication in MPICH, including performance analyses of many collective operations, has been given by Thakur et al.  

RDMA read based rendezvous protocol for MPI over InfiniBand Design alternatives and benefits. In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, pp. 32-39. New York ACM Press, 2006. 

Thakur, R., R. Rabenseifner, and W. Gropp. Optimization of collective communication operations in MPICH. Int.. High Perform. C. 19 49-66,2005. 

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