Tag: MPI

  • Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time to Reunite
    Exascale Computing and Big Data: Time to Reunite

    It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.

  • Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
    Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude

    Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.

  • A Few Thoughts on Programming
    A Few Thoughts on Programming

    I just posted an essay on the BLOG@CACM site regarding the divergence of programming models for network (distributed) services and for parallel computing. The details are here. In the essay, MPI is a placeholder for all of the message passing libraries we have developed over the past thirty years.