MPH4: Distributed Multi-Component Environment

Each executable resides on a set of SMP nodes. Components within an executable may overlap on different nodes or processors. Instances within an executable may not overlap on different nodes or processors.

MPH4 contains the following functionality:

component name registration

resource allocation

multi-component single executable, multi-component multi-executable, multi-instance multi executable, etc.

inter-component communication

inquiry on the multi-component environment

standard in/out redirect

The major addition over MPH3 is the multi-instance executable for ensemble simulation.

Send us email for questions and technical issues. If you find MPH useful, please also drop us an email so we could send you update and new release notice. A short paragraph of what's your application, which platform you are running and the processor allocation info is much appreciated.

Note: 02/10/05 new release: MPH V4.1

(If you have downloaded MPH4 earlier, all you need to do is to replace your old mph.F with this new new mph.F.)

More explanation and source code as a tar file here (please see copyright info here) or access the individual files as follows:

MPH4 User's Manual (in html, in pdf) (this manual is for MPH4, but work for MPH4.1 too)

mph.F: MPH_module

Makefile: shared makefile.

test1:

1 executable: Ocean - Atmosphere - Coupler (3 components).

test2:

3 executables: Coupler (1 component); Ice - Land (2 components); Ocean - Atmosphere (2 components).

test3:

2 executables: Coupler; Ice - Land (2 components).

join communicator for Ice and Coupler.

send/recv messages between components.

redirect output.

test4:

1 executable: 3 instances of POP.

test5:

1 executable: 3 instances of POP.

Input arguments passed from command line.

test6:

4 executables: Coupler; 3 instances of POP; Ice - Land; POP_control.

join communicator for Ice and Coupler.

Input arguments passed from command line.

send/recv messages between components.

redirect output.

For more information, please go to web page:
http://hpcrd.lbl.gov/SCG/acpi/MPH

Last modified Feb 10, 2005. Yun Helen He (yhe@lbl.gov), Chris Ding (chqding@lbl.gov)

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