Category Archives: Papers

Blocking vs. Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing for Large-Scale Fault Tolerant MPI

D. Buntinas, C. Coti, T. Hérault, P. Lemarinier, L. Pilard, A. Rezmerita, E. Rodriguez and F. Cappello, “Blocking vs. Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing for Large-Scale Fault Tolerant MPI”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 24, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 73-84. (pdf)

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Analyzing the Impact of Supporting Out-of-Order Communication on In-Order Performance with iWARP

P. Balaji, W. Feng, S. Bhagvat, D. K. Panda, R. Thakur, W. Gropp, “Analyzing the Impact of Supporting Out-of-Order Communication on In-Order Performance with iWARP,” in Proc. of SC07, November 2007. (pdf)

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Self-Consistent MPI Performance Requirements

J. L. Träff, W. Gropp, and R. Thakur, “Self-Consistent MPI Performance Requirements,” in Proc. of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2007), September 2007, pp. 36-45. (pdf) (selected for the outstanding papers session)

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Test Suite for Evaluating Performance of MPI Implementations That Support MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE

R. Thakur and W. Gropp, “Test Suite for Evaluating Performance of MPI Implementations That Support MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE,” in Proc. of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2007), September 2007, pp. 46-55. (pdf) (selected for the outstanding papers session)

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Revealing the Performance of MPI RMA Implementations

W. Gropp and R. Thakur, “Revealing the Performance of MPI RMA Implementations,” in Proc. of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2007), September 2007, pp. 272-280. (pdf)

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Practical Model Checking Method for Verifying Correctness of MPI Programs

S. Pervez, G. Gopalakrishnan, R. M. Kirby, R. Palmer, R. Thakur, and W. Gropp, “Practical Model Checking Method for Verifying Correctness of MPI Programs,” Proc. of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2007), September 2007, pp. 344-353. … Continue reading

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Extending the MPI-2 Generalized Request Interface

R. Latham, W. Gropp, R. Ross, and R. Thakur, “Extending the MPI-2 Generalized Request Interface,” in Proc. of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2007), September 2007, pp. 223-232. (pdf)

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Implementation and Evaluation of Shared-Memory Communication and Synchronization Operations in MPICH2 using the Nemesis Communication Subsystem

D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, “Implementation and Evaluation of Shared-Memory Communication and Synchronization Operations in MPICH2 using the Nemesis Communication Subsystem”, Parallel Computing, Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2007, Pages 634-644. (pdf)

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Open Issues in MPI Implementation

R. Thakur and W. Gropp, “Open Issues in MPI Implementation,” in Proc. of the 12th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2007), August 2007, pp. 327-338. (pdf)

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Thread Safety in an MPI Implementation: Requirements and Analysis

W. Gropp and R. Thakur, “Thread Safety in an MPI Implementation: Requirements and Analysis,” Parallel Computing, (33)9:595-604, September 2007. (pdf)

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