[Mpi-forum] Partitioned Communication First Reading Announcement---Chicago

Skjellum, Anthony Tony-Skjellum at utc.edu
Tue May 14 10:21:03 CDT 2019


Dear MPI Forum Colleagues:

The Persistent WG in collaboration with the Point-to-point WG plans to read a new proposal entitled "Partitioned Communication."

https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/136

PR: https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/pull/117

A brief explanation follows since this is new to many of you as a formal proposal for MPI-4:

MPI currently provides all multi-threaded functionality through the existing interface that was designed primarily for single-threaded operation. There are no interfaces designed specifically to address the unique requirements of multi-threaded communication in MPI.

Partitioned communication modes extend the behavior of persistent point-to-point communication using a non-local initialization call. Partitioned communication is "Partitioned" because it allows for multiple contributions of data to be made from potentially multiple threads/tasks to a single communication operation.

This is the proposal formerly known as finepoints, which we've been working on for several years.

Ryan Grant will lead this reading in Chicago.

Regards,
Tony Skjellum



Anthony Skjellum, PhD

Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Excellence

Director, SimCenter

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC)

tony-skjellum at utc.edu  [or skjellum at gmail.com]

cell: 205-807-4968

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