The performance of collective communication operations is one of the deciding factors in the overall performance of a MPI application. Open MPI's component architecture offers an easy way to implement new algorithms for collective operations, but current implementations use the point-to-point components to access the InfiniBand network. Therefore it is tried to improve the performance of a collective component by accessing the InfiniBand network directly. This should avoid overhead and make it possible to tune the algorithms to this specific network. The first part of this work gives a short overview of the InfiniBand Architecture and Open MPI. In the next part several models for parallel computation are analyzed. Afterwards various algorithms for the MPI_Scatter, MPI_Gather and MPI_Allgather operations are presented. The theoretical performance of the algorithms is analyzed with the LogfP and LogGP models. Selected algorithms are implemented as part of an Open MPI collective component. Finally the performance of different algorithms and different MPI implementations is compared. The test results show, that the performance of the operations could be improved for several message and communicator size ranges.

The performance of collective communication operations is one of the deciding factors in the overall performance of a MPI application. Open MPI's component architecture offers an easy way to implement new algorithms for collective operations, but current implementations use the point-to-point components to access the InfiniBand network. Therefore it is tried to improve the performance of a collective component by accessing the InfiniBand network directly. This should avoid overhead and make it possible to tune the algorithms to this specific network. The first part of this work gives a short overview of the InfiniBand Architecture and Open MPI. In the next part several models for parallel computation are analyzed. Afterwards various algorithms for the MPI_Scatter, MPI_Gather and MPI_Allgather operations are presented. The theoretical performance of the algorithms is analyzed with the LogfP and LogGP models. Selected algorithms are implemented as part of an Open MPI collective component. Finally the performance of different algorithms and different MPI implementations is compared. The test results show, that the performance of the operations could be improved for several message and communicator size ranges.