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    MPI Working Group

    → Europe/Zurich
    telephone

    telephone
    Loomis, C.
    Description
    CERN Telephone Conference
    Title: MPI Working Group
    Phone: +41 22 767 7000
    Organizer: Charles Loomis
    Time: 14:00 CERN
    minutes
      • 14:00 → 14:15
        Organizational Issues 15m
        Mandate of the working group. Time scales for releases.
      • 14:15 → 14:30
        User Requirements 15m
        What do the users require in the short term and long term? Do users need MPICH-1? MPICH-2? Another MPI implementation? Shared home areas for input/output? Executable distribution to workers sufficient? Need for pre/post processing in same job (e.g. compiling the executable locally)? Need for sequence of MPI executables in the same job with same nodes? Multisite MPI? Particular compilation environment?
      • 14:30 → 14:45
        Site Requirements 15m
        Need to provide customized software environment (e.g. mpiexec for pbs, or for special hardware)? Limits on network connectivity?

        What sites are willing to do tests? What batch systems, job managers, special hardware can we test?

      • 14:45 → 15:00
        Roadmap 15m
        What things can we likely get into the next gLite releases? What are the longer-term efforts? Who is available to write test cases? To modify configurations for systematic tests?