With the Mayan apocalypse safely behind us, now we can now safely discuss MPI again. An MPI application developer came to me the other day with a potential bug in Open MPI: he noticed that Open MPI was consuming vast amounts of memory such that trying
Today’s guest blog entry comes from Daniel Holmes, an Applications Developers at the EPCC. I met Jeff at EuroMPI in September, and he has invited me to write a few words on my experience of developing an MPI library. My PhD involved building a
It’s that time of year again — time to start preparing for Euro MPI 2013! Next year, we’ll be heading to Madrid, Spain September 15-18. Here’s a snipit from the call for papers: Topics of interest include, but are not limited
My team demonstrated our new ultra-low latency Ethernet solution in the Cisco booth at SC this past week (it was so busy that I didn’t get to post this until it was all over!). The short version is that we have implemented operating system
The MPICH folks have released an RC candidate for MPICH 3.0: A new preview release of MPICH, 3.0rc1, is now available for download. The primary focus of this release is to provide full support for the MPI-3 standard. Other smaller features including
The MPI-3.0 standard is now available in hardcover (it’s green!). The book is available for cost by Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner at HLRS; no profit is being made by these sales. Here’s an excerpt from Rolf’s original announcement: As a
Going to Salt Lake City for Supercomputing 2012 next week? So are we! Be sure to drop by and see us in the Cisco booth (#2517). I’ll be there, demonstrating and talking about our latest developments in ultra low latency Ethernet (hint: it
