[mpich-discuss] availability of an implementation of MPI 3 on production platforms

Matthieu Dorier matthieu.dorier at irisa.fr
Wed Jul 24 09:49:15 CDT 2013


Thanks for your reply.
I am, indeed, specifically interested in the one-sided part :-)

I'll send a mail to the MPI forum.

Best,

Matthieu

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Jeff Hammond" <jeff.science at gmail.com>
> À: discuss at mpich.org
> Envoyé: Mercredi 24 Juillet 2013 09:16:56
> Objet: Re: [mpich-discuss] availability of an implementation of MPI 3 on production platforms
> 
> If you post this to the MPI Forum list, Rich Graham should be able to
> share his slide deck of the ETA for MPI-3 for essentially all
> implementations.
> 
> MPICH-3 supports all of MPI-3 as far as I know.  I think MVAPICH2-1.9
> is derived from it but I have not verified that everything in MPI-3
> is
> working (I have no reason to doubt this).
> 
> Word on the street is that Cray deployed their latest MPI
> implementation based upon MPICH-3, hence it should support MPI-3 as
> well.
> 
> The MPICH test suite exercises many aspects of MPI-3 and can be used
> to verify other implementations.
> 
> In the event you're interested in RMA, I have been using most of
> MPI-3
> RMA from MPICH-3 regularly.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Matthieu Dorier
> <matthieu.dorier at irisa.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a non-technical question:
> >
> > The MPI 3 standard includes some very nice features, which I'm
> > impatient to
> > leverage in my projects, but being still recent, most platforms
> > today (at
> > least all production platforms I have access to) do not provide an
> > implementation of it. I'm curious when do you think we will be able
> > to say
> > that a majority of platforms provide MPI 3, and that a code that
> > using MPI 3
> > can be seen as portable? (how long did it take between the release
> > of the
> > MPI 2 standard and its availability on most platforms?) Are you
> > aware of
> > platforms that already provide it? And what is the status of the
> > implementation in Mpich? (are there functions still to be
> > implemented?)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Matthieu Dorier
> > PhD student at ENS Cachan Brittany and IRISA
> > http://people.irisa.fr/Matthieu.Dorier
> >
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