Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. MPI 3 and Beyond: Why MPI Is Successful and What Challenges It Faces

      • William Gropp

      Pages 1-9

   2. MPI Functions and Their Impact on Interconnect Hardware

      • Ulrich Brüning

      Pages 10-10

   3. The MPI Communication Library for the K Computer: Its Design and Implementation

      • Shinji Sumimoto

      Pages 11-11

   4. MPI and Compiler Technology: A Love-Hate Relationship

      • Anthony Danalis

      Pages 12-13

3. Tutorials

   1. Advanced MPI Including New MPI-3 Features

      • William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur

      Pages 14-14

   2. Hands-on Practical Hybrid Parallel Application Performance Engineering

      • Markus Geimer, Michael Gerndt, Sameer Shende, Bert Wesarg, Brian Wylie

      Pages 15-15

4. MPI Implementation Techniques and Issues

   1. Adaptive Strategy for One-Sided Communication in MPICH2

      • Xin Zhao, Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, William Gropp

      Pages 16-26

   2. A Low Impact Flow Control Implementation for Offload Communication Interfaces

      • Brian W. Barrett, Ron Brightwell, Keith D. Underwood

      Pages 27-36

   3. Improving MPI Communication Overlap with Collaborative Polling

      • Sylvain Didelot, Patrick Carribault, Marc Pérache, William Jalby

      Pages 37-46

   4. Delegation-Based MPI Communications for a Hybrid Parallel Computer with Many-Core Architecture

      • Kazumi Yoshinaga, Yuichi Tsujita, Atsushi Hori, Mikiko Sato, Mitaro Namiki, Yutaka Ishikawa

      Pages 47-56

   5. Efficient Multithreaded Context ID Allocation in MPI

      • James Dinan, David Goodell, William Gropp, Rajeev Thakur, Pavan Balaji

      Pages 57-66

   6. Collectives on Two-Tier Direct Networks

      • Nikhil Jain, JohnMark Lau, Laxmikant Kale

      Pages 67-77

   7. Exploiting Atomic Operations for Barrier on Cray XE/XK Systems

      • Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Richard L. Graham, Joshua S. Ladd, Pavel Shamis, Nathan T. Hjelm, Samuel K. Gutierrez

      Pages 78-88

   8. Exact Dependence Analysis for Increased Communication Overlap

      • Simone Pellegrini, Torsten Hoefler, Thomas Fahringer

      Pages 89-99

5. Benchmarking and Performance Analysis

   1. mpicroscope: Towards an MPI Benchmark Tool for Performance Guideline Verification

      • Jesper Larsson Träff

      Pages 100-109

   2. OMB-GPU: A Micro-Benchmark Suite for Evaluating MPI Libraries on GPU Clusters

      • D. Bureddy, H. Wang, A. Venkatesh, S. Potluri, D. K. Panda

      Pages 110-120

   3. Micro-applications for Communication Data Access Patterns and MPI Datatypes

      • Timo Schneider, Robert Gerstenberger, Torsten Hoefler

      Pages 121-131

6. Programming Models and New Architectures

   1. Leveraging MPI’s One-Sided Communication Interface for Shared-Memory Programming

      • Torsten Hoefler, James Dinan, Darius Buntinas, Pavan Balaji, Brian W. Barrett, Ron Brightwell et al.

      Pages 132-141

   2. Wait-Free Message Passing Protocol for Non-coherent Shared Memory Architectures

      • Isaías A. Comprés Ureña, Michael Gerndt, Carsten Trinitis

      Pages 142-152

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012. The 29 revised papers presented together with 4 invited talks and 7 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on MPI implementation techniques and issues; benchmarking and performance analysis; programming models and new architectures; run-time support; fault-tolerance; message-passing algorithms; message-passing applications; IMUDI, improving MPI user and developer interaction.

• distributed algorithms
• fault-tolerance
• many-core architecture
• topology
• user-level communication
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Faculty of Informatics, Institute of Information Systems, Research Group Parallel Computing, Vienna University of Technology / TU Wien, Vienna / Wien, Austria

  Jesper Larsson Träff

• Faculty of Computer Science, Research Group Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Vienna / Wien, Austria

  Siegfried Benkner

• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

  Jack J. Dongarra

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