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We are excited to share that MPICH has received the 2024 ACM Software System Award. This prestigious award recognizes software systems that have had a lasting impact on the computing field. We are proud to be in the company of distinguished past recipients like TCP/IP, GCC, Unix, TeX, LLVM, Java, NCSA Mosaic, and the World Wide Web. Thank you to all our collaborators and partners over the years who have been integral to MPICH’s success!Read the official Argonne press release.Continue reading →
“The Oscars of Invention” – The Chicago Tribune For 45 years, the prestigious R&D 100 Awards have been helping companies provide the important initial push a new product needs to compete successfully in the marketplace. The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.Continue reading →
Implementing Byte-Range Locks Using MPI One-Sided Communication
R. Thakur, R. Ross, and R. Latham, “Implementing Byte-Range Locks
Using MPI One-Sided Communication,” in Proc. of the 12th European
PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2005), Recent Advances
in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3666, Springer, September 2005,
pp. 119-128. (ps, pdf)
(Note: We recently discovered a bug in this algorithm that can lead
to
deadlock. See this
paper published in Euro PVM/MPI 2006 for details and proposed
fixes.)