The Open MPI developer community might be interested in this discussion (Below is the message I sent to the PMIx list a few weeks ago).
If you are interested in participating please register so we can properly scope resource needs. Information in the link below. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hpc-runtime-wg/LGaHyZ0jRvE/n2t9MeSkDgAJ Thanks, Josh ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Josh Hursey <jjhur...@open-mpi.org> Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 6:55 PM Subject: System Runtime Interfaces: What’s the Best Way Forward? To: <p...@googlegroups.com> I'd like to share this meeting announcement with the PMIx community. I am co-facilitating this meeting to help champion the exceptional effort of the PMIx community towards innovation, adoption, and standardization in this domain. I intend to bring forward the PMIx standardization effort as one such path forward towards the goals described in this announcement. I hope for a meaningful discussion both on the group's mailing list and in the face-to-face meeting. If you are interested and able to lend your voice to the conversation it would be appreciated. -- Josh -------------------------------------------- The entire HPC community (and beyond!) benefits by having a standardized API specification between applications/tools and system runtime environments. Such a standard interface should focus on supporting HPC application launch and wire-up; tools that wish to inspect, steer, and/or debug parallel applications; interfaces to manage dynamic workload applications; interfaces to support fault tolerance and cross-library coordination; and communication across container boundaries. Beyond the proprietary interfaces, the HPC community has seen the evolution from PMI-1 to PMI-2 to the current PMIx interfaces. We would like to discuss how to move the current state of practice forward towards greater stability and wider adoption. What is the best way to achieve this goal without hindering current progress in the broader HPC community? There are a wide range of directions to go towards this goal, but which is the best path - that is the question we seek to discuss in this group. This effort seeks a broad community to participate in this discussion. The community should represent folks working on parallel libraries (e.g., MPI, UPC, OpenSHMEM), runtime environments (e.g., SLURM, LSF, Torque), container runtimes and orchestration environments (e.g., Singularity, CharlieCloud, Docker, Kubernetes), tools (e.g., TotalView, DDT, STAT), and the broader research community. We will have a face-to-face meeting on March 4, 2019, from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm in Chattanooga, TN, to discuss these questions. The meeting will be co-located with (but separate from) the MPI Forum meeting (See this page for logistics information: https://www.mpi-forum.org/meetings/). The meeting is co-located with the MPI Forum to facilitate organization and because of the overlap in the communities. A mailing list has been created at the link below to facilitate conversation on this topic: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hpc-runtime-wg Feel free to forward this information to others in your community that might be interested in this discussion. Kathryn Mohror (LLNL) and Josh Hursey (IBM) -- Josh Hursey IBM Spectrum MPI Developer -- Josh Hursey IBM Spectrum MPI Developer
_______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.open-mpi.org https://lists.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
