Category Archives: Papers

Advanced Flow-control Mechanisms for the Sockets Direct Protocol over InfiniBand

P. Balaji, S. Bhagvat, D. Panda, R. Thakur, and W. Gropp, “Advanced Flow-control Mechanisms for the Sockets Direct Protocol over InfiniBand,” in Proc. of the 2007 Int’l Conference on Parallel Processing, September 2007. (pdf)

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Implementing MPI-IO Atomic Mode and Shared File Pointers Using MPI One-Sided Communication

R. Latham, R. Ross, and R. Thakur, “Implementing MPI-IO Atomic Mode and Shared File Pointers Using MPI One-Sided Communication,” Int’l Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, (21)2:132–143, Summer 2007. (pdf)

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Nonuniformly Communicating Noncontiguous Data: A Case Study with PETSc and MPI

P. Balaji, D. Buntinas, S. Balay, B. Smith, R. Thakur, W. Gropp, “Nonuniformly Communicating Noncontiguous Data: A Case Study with PETSc and MPI,” in Proc. of the 21st IEEE Int’l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007), March 2007. (pdf)

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A New Flexible MPI Collective I/O Implementation

K. Coloma, A. Ching, A. Choudhary, W. Liao, R. Ross, R. Thakur, and L. Ward, “A New Flexible MPI Collective I/O Implementation” in Proc. of the IEEE Int’l Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2006), September 2006. (pdf)

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Implementation and Shared-Memory Evaluation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis Communication Subsystem

D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, “Implementation and Shared-Memory Evaluation of MPICH2 over the Nemesis Communication Subsystem”, in Proc. of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2006), September 2006. (pdf)

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Issues in Developing a Thread-Safe MPI Implementation

W. Gropp and R. Thakur, “Issues in Developing a Thread-Safe MPI Implementation,” in Proc. of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2006), September 2006, pp. 12-21. (pdf) (selected as 1 of 3 outstanding papers at the conference)

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Formal Verification of Programs That Use MPI One-Sided Communication

S. Pervez, G. Gopalakrishnan, R. M. Kirby, R. Thakur, and W. Gropp, “Formal Verification of Programs That Use MPI One-Sided Communication,” in Proc. of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2006), September 2006, pp. 30-39. (pdf) (selected … Continue reading

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Can MPI Be Used for Persistent Parallel Services?

R. Latham, R. Ross, and R. Thakur, “Can MPI Be Used for Persistent Parallel Services?,” in Proc. of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2006), September 2006, pp. 275-284. (pdf)

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Automatic Memory Optimizations for Improving MPI Derived Datatype Performance

S. Byna, X. Sun, R. Thakur, and W. Gropp, “Automatic Memory Optimizations for Improving MPI Derived Datatype Performance,” in Proc. of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting (Euro PVM/MPI 2006), September 2006, pp. 238-246. (pdf)

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Data Transfers Between Processes in an SMP System: Performance Study and Application to MPI

D. Buntinas, G. Mercier and W. Gropp, “Data Transfers Between Processes in an SMP System: Performance Study and Application to MPI”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing 2006 (ICPP 06), August 2006. (pdf)

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