SEMINAR

Research in Message Passing Systems Architecture

Department of Computer Science
Mississippi State University

ABSTRACT

In this talk, we present the design and implementation issues associated with parallel processing message passing systems. Starting from ad hoc roots, and looking at requirements-driven specifications for portability, expressivity, performance, and user factors, a number of message passing systems have been designed. We compare and contrast early systems to the Zipcode system designed at Caltech, to MPI-1, MPI-2, and finally MPI/RT. We mention research in the High Performance Computing Laboratory at Mississippi State University, including emerging themes in quality of service architectures for future parallel computing runtime systems.

WHERE: TEC 340

WHEN(day): Friday, April 23rd, 1999

WHEN(time): 2:00 PM

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