MPI-2


Up: Final Comments Next: Summary Previous: Sharable MPI Resources, continued


  • The MPI Forum (with old and new participants) has begun a follow-on series of meetings.
  • Goals
    -- clarify existing draft
    -- provide features users have requested
    -- make extensions, not changes

  • Major Topics being considered
    -- dynamic process management
    -- client/server
    -- real-time extensions
    -- ``one-sided'' communication (put/get, active messages)
    -- portable access to MPI system state (for debuggers)
    -- language bindings for C++ and Fortran-90

  • Schedule
    -- Dynamic processes, client/server by SC '95
    -- MPI-2 complete by SC '96



    Up: Final Comments Next: Summary Previous: Sharable MPI Resources, continued