Initial Release

Aluminum provides a generic interface to high-performance communication libraries, with a focus on allreduce algorithms. Blocking and non-blocking algorithms and GPU-aware algorithms are supported. Aluminum also contains custom implementations of select algorithms to optimize for certain situations.

Features:

• Blocking and non-blocking algorithms
• GPU-aware algorithms
• Implementations/interfaces:
  • MPI: MPI and custom algorithms implemented on top of MPI
  • NCCL: Interface to Nvidia's NCCL 2 library
  • MPI-CUDA: Custom GPU-aware algorithms