MPI 3 and beyond: Why MPI is successful and what challenges it faces

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Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) was developed over eighteen years ago and continues to be the preferred programming model for scientific computing. Contributing to that success was a combination of forward-looking features, precise definition, and judgment based on the experience of developers, vendors and users. Today, MPI continues to adapt to the changing needs of parallel programming, with MPI-3 introducing enhancements for collective and one-sided communication, multi-threaded programming, support of performance tools for MPI programming, etc. However, MPI faces many challenges as the nature of parallel computing changes more radically than at any time in the history of MPI. This talk will touch on some of the less obvious but important reasons for MPI success, discuss some of the challenges that MPI faces, and makes suggestions for future directions in MPI and parallel programming language research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRecent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Proceedings
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: Sep 23 2012Sep 26 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7490 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface, EuroMPI 2012
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period9/23/129/26/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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