Method and system for efficiently transferring a self-defined non-contiguous message in a one-sided communication model

A computer-implemented method of transferring non-contiguous messages across a distributed computing environment comprising a plurality of processing nodes coupled together over a network, the method on a receiving node comprising:

• receiving a series of transmission packets representing a set of data which is transferred from at least one originating task executing on at least one sending node to at least one target executing on a receiver node;
• identifying each of the transmission packets into one of two groups of description packets and data packets and in response to
• a transmission packet identified as a description packet, assembling using an metadata unpacking routine, a description of a layout of a set of data to be received by at least one target task executing on the at least one sending node;
• and
• a transmission packet identified as a data packet, transfer the data packets to the at least one target task.

A computer program product for transferring data between two application data structures, the computer program product comprising:

• a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing computer instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
• grouping a set of data to be transferred into a series of transmission packets for transmission from an originating task executing on a sending note to at least one target task executing on at least one receiving node;
• packaging a description of a layout of a user buffer on the at least one receiving node into a group of one or more description packets;
• placing each of the description packets into a transmit buffer of the sending node and maintaining a count of the total number of description packets placed in the transmit buffer for transmission therefrom to the at least one receiving node;
• and
• identifying and gathering each of the transmission packets which represent data packets and forwarding each of the data packets to the transmit buffer for transmission therefrom to the at least one receiving node.

A computer program product for transferring data between two application data structures, the computer program product comprising:

• a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing computer instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
• receiving a series of transmission packets representing a set of data which is transferred from at least one originating task executing on at least one sending node to at least one target executing on a receiver node;
• identifying each of the transmission packets into one of two groups of description packets and data packets and in response to
• a transmission packet identified as a description packet, assembling using an metadata unpacking routine, a description of a layout of a set of data to be received by at least one target task executing on the at least one sending node;
• and
• a transmission packet identified as a data packet, transfer the data packets to the at least one target task.

A distributed computing system having a multiplicity of nodes, each node running a plurality of processes, the system comprising:

• a processing circuit for transferring data between two application data structures, the processing circuit comprising:
• means for grouping a set of data to be transferred into a series of transmission packets for transmission from an originating task executing on a sending note to at least one target task executing on at least one receiving node;
• means for packaging a description of a layout of a user buffer on the at least one receiving node into a group of one or more description packets;
• means for placing each of the description packets into a transmit buffer of the sending node and maintaining a count of the total number of description packets placed in the transmit buffer for transmission therefrom to the at least one receiving node;
• and
• means for identifying and gathering each of the transmission packets which represent data packets and forwarding each of the data packets to the transmit buffer for transmission therefrom to the at least one receiving node.

A distributed computing system having a multiplicity of nodes, each node running a plurality of processes, the system comprising:

• a processing circuit for transferring data between two application data structures, the processing circuit comprising:
• means for receiving a series of transmission packets representing a set of data which is transferred from at least one originating task executing on at least one sending node to at least one target executing on a receiver node;
• means for identifying each of the transmission packets into one of two groups of description packets and data packets and in response to
• a transmission packet identified as a description packet, assembling using an metadata unpacking routine, a description of a layout of a set of data to be received by at least one target task executing on the at least one sending node;
• and
• a transmission packet identified as a data packet, transfer the data packets to the at least one target task.