MPI Sessions: a proposal for the MPI Forum

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Today, a small group of us left “stealth mode” and presented a group of ideas to the MPI Forum loosely grouped under the moniker of “MPI Sessions.” These ideas behind this presentation originated from several places: My previous presentation of crazy ideas about INIT/FINALIZE at EuroMPI’15 in Bordeaux, France That Jonathan Dursi blog entry Other […]

Slides from Open MPI SC’15 SotU and MPI Forum BOFs

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Here’s the slides from the Open MPI State of the Union (SotU) BOF that were presented by George Bosilca, Nathan Hjelm, and myself at the SC’15 trade show. Thanks to all who were able to join us at the BOF in person! UPDATE: Per request, I have also added the slides from the MPI Forum […]

It’s that time again! SC’15

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Who’s heading to SC’15 this weekend?  I am! Austin looks to have an exciting lineup this year.  Here’s the things I’m involved with: Dave Goodell and the rest of the Libfabric crew will be presenting An Introduction to the OpenFabric Interfaces API tutorial Dr. George Bosilca and I will presenting the annual Open MPI State […]

More crazy MPI ideas: Fault detection and recovery

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I had a good conversation with an ISV yesterday who makes a popular MPI-based simulation application.  One of the things I like to do in these kinds of conversations is ask the ISV engineers two questions: What new features do you want from the MPI implementations that you use? What new features or changes do you want […]

Libfabric: Cisco’s journey, playing well with MPI

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In the previous blog entry, I shared the slides of one of the mini-talks that I gave at EuroMPI 2015 in Bordeaux, France (and don’t forget to start planning for EuroMPI 2016 in Edinburgh, Scottland). The second mini-talk I gave was twofold in itself: I discussed Cisco’s journey from the Verbs API to the Libfabric API, and […]

Crazy ideas to revamp MPI_INIT and MPI_FINALIZE

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I recently had the pleasure of attending EuroMPI 2015, hosted by INRIA in Bordeaux, France (…hey, you should attend EuroMPI 2016 in Edinburgh, Scottland!). I gave two mini-talks during my speaking slot, the first of which was entitled: Crazy ideas about revamping MPI_INIT and MPI_FINALIZE.