Solutions for Distributed Memory Access Mechanism on HPC Clusters

TL;DR

This paper compares remote memory access mechanisms in HPC clusters, demonstrating that MPI-based remote access can perform similarly to local memory, with potential benefits for medical applications.

Contribution

It evaluates and compares different remote memory access solutions in HPC clusters, highlighting MPI's effectiveness and potential use-cases in medicine.

Findings

MPI-based remote access performs similarly to local memory

Shared storage solutions vary in performance

Medical applications could benefit from these mechanisms

Abstract

Paper presents and evaluates various mechanisms for remote access to memory in distributed systems based on two distinct HPC clusters. We are comparing solutions based on the shared storage and MPI (over Infiniband and Slingshot) to the local memory access. This paper also mentions medical use-cases that would mostly benefit from the described solution. We have found out that results for remote access esp. backed by MPI are similar to local memory access.