[mpich-devel] mpi is dying?

[Rob Latham]

I (and it seems quite a few others) found this yesterday:

http://www.dursi.ca/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it/

The premise is a couple things:
- spark, hadoop, and the "silicon valley stack" has tremendous mindshare
- MPI is too hard for application writers
- and too challenging for library writers
- and HPC has "not invented here" blinders keeping it from adopting new 
techonolgy

now, when someone writes "X is dying" it's more of an opening position 
statement for a discussion than a statement of fact.    But it does 
bother me immensely that there is an "HPC stack" and a "silicon valley 
stack".  Convergence is happening, but not fast enough.

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA