Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. The Next Frontier

      • George Bosilca

      Pages 1-1

   2. Fault Tolerance for PetaScale Systems: Current Knowledge, Challenges and Opportunities

      • Franck Cappello

      Pages 2-2

   3. Managing Multicore with OpenMP (Extended Abstract)

      • Barbara Chapman

      Pages 3-4

   4. MPI Must Evolve or Die

      • Al Geist

      Pages 5-5

   5. MPI and Hybrid Programming Models for Petascale Computing

      • William D. Gropp

      Pages 6-7

   6. Some Aspects of Message-Passing on Future Hybrid Systems (Extended Abstract)

      • Rolf Rabenseifner

      Pages 8-10

   7. From Parallel Virtual Machine to Virtual Parallel Machine: The Unibus System

      • Vaidy Sunderam

      Pages 11-11

3. Tutorial

   1. EuroPVM/MPI Full-Day Tutorial. Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach

      • William Gropp, Ewing Lusk

      Pages 12-12

4. Outstanding Papers

   1. Non-data-communication Overheads in MPI: Analysis on Blue Gene/P

      • Pavan Balaji, Anthony Chan, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Ewing Lusk

      Pages 13-22

   2. Architecture of the Component Collective Messaging Interface

      • Sameer Kumar, Gabor Dozsa, Jeremy Berg, Bob Cernohous, Douglas Miller, Joseph Ratterman et al.

      Pages 23-32

   3. X-SRQ - Improving Scalability and Performance of Multi-core InfiniBand Clusters

      • Galen M. Shipman, Stephen Poole, Pavel Shamis, Ishai Rabinovitz

      Pages 33-42

   4. A Software Tool for Accurate Estimation of Parameters of Heterogeneous Communication Models

      • Alexey Lastovetsky, Vladimir Rychkov, Maureen O’Flynn

      Pages 43-54

5. Applications

   1. Sparse Non-blocking Collectives in Quantum Mechanical Calculations

      • Torsten Hoefler, Florian Lorenzen, Andrew Lumsdaine

      Pages 55-63

   2. Dynamic Load Balancing on Dedicated Heterogeneous Systems

      • Ismael Galindo, Francisco Almeida, José Manuel Badía-Contelles

      Pages 64-74

   3. Communication Optimization for Medical Image Reconstruction Algorithms

      • Torsten Hoefler, Maraike Schellmann, Sergei Gorlatch, Andrew Lumsdaine

      Pages 75-83

6. Collective Operations

   1. A Simple, Pipelined Algorithm for Large, Irregular All-gather Problems

      • Jesper Larsson Träff, Andreas Ripke, Christian Siebert, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp

      Pages 84-93

   2. MPI Reduction Operations for Sparse Floating-point Data

      • Michael Hofmann, Gudula Rünger

      Pages 94-101

7. Library Internals

   1. A Prototype Implementation of MPI for SMARTMAP

      • Ron Brightwell

      Pages 102-110

   2. Gravel: A Communication Library to Fast Path MPI

      • Anthony Danalis, Aaron Brown, Lori Pollock, Martin Swany, John Cavazos

      Pages 111-119

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2008. The 29 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 7 invited contributions, 1 tutorial paper and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications, collective operations, library internals, message passing for multi-core and mutlithreaded architectures, MPI datatypes, MPI I/O, synchronisation issues in point-to-point and one-sided communications, tools, and verification of message passing programs. The volume is rounded off with 4 contributions to the special ParSim session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.

• C++ programming language
• Cluster
• Debugging
• algorithms
• arithmetic coding
• benchmark
• calculus
• clock synchronization
• cluster computing
• collective communication
• data compression
• distributed computing
• distributed systems
• event tracing
• grid computing

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