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The efficiency and scalability of MPI collective operations, in particular the broadcast operation, plays an integral part in high performance computing applications. MPICH, as one of the contemporary widely-used MPI software stacks, implements the broadcast operation based on point-to-point operation. Depending on the parameters, such as message size and process count, the library chooses to use different algorithms, as for instance binomial dissemination, recursive-doubling exchange or ring all-to-all broadcast (all-gather). However, the existing broadcast design in latest release of MPICH does not provide good performance for large messages (lmsg) or medium messages with non-power-of-two process counts (mmsg-npof2) due to the inner suboptimal ring allgather algorithm. In this paper, based on the native broadcast design in MPICH, we propose a tuned broadcast approach with bandwidth-saving in mind catering to the case of lmsg and mmsg-npof2. Several comparisons of the native and tuned broadcast designs are made for different data sizes and program sizes on Cray XC40 cluster. The results show that the performance of the tuned broadcast design can get improved by a range from 2% to 54% for lmsg and mmsg-npof2 in terms of user-level testing.

A Bandwidth-Saving Optimization for MPI Broadcast Collective Operation