Sorry for the shameless self indulgence, but there seems to be a growing trend of love/hate around MPI. I'll leave my opinions aside, but at the same time I'd love connect and host a list where others who are passionate about scalability can vent and openly discuss ideas.
Despite the comical name, I've created mpi-haters mailing list http://lists.pathscale.com/mailman/listinfo/mpi-haters_lists.pathscale.com To start things off - Some of the ideas I've been privately bouncing around Can current directive based approaches (OMP/ACC) be extended to scale out. (I've seen some research out of Japan on this or similar) Is Chapel c-like syntax similar enough to easily implement in clang Can one low level library succeed at creating a clean interface across all popular industry interconnects (libfabrics vs UCX) Real world success or failure of "exascale" runtimes? (What's your experience - lets not pull any punches) I won't claim to see ridiculous scalability in most web applications I've worked on, but they had so many tools available - Why have I never heard of memcache being used in a supercomputer and or why isn't sharding ever mentioned... Everyone is welcome and lets keep it positive and fun - invite your friends ./C ps - Apologies if you get this message more than once. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
