EuroMPI is the leading conference for users and developers of MPI. Hosted in Edinburgh on the 25th – 28th Sept 2016, there will be 4 days of networking, discussion and skills building. The theme of this year’s conference is “Modern Challenges to MPI’s Dominance in HPC”.
Technical papers discussion will include:
- Useful optimisations of existing MPI functions
- Interesting directions for future MPI functionality
- Practical experiences with fault-tolerant MPI programs
- Exciting progress toward million-thread MPI capability.
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EuroMPI Keynotes
* Jonathan Dursi, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research: “How Can MPI Fit Into Today’s Big Computing?”
For years, the academic science and engineering community was almost alone in pursuing very large-scale numerical computing, and MPI was the lingua franca for such work. In this talk, Jonathan looks to see where MPI and the MPI community fits in to this new ecosystem.
* Bill Gropp, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “MPI: The Once and Future King”
Will MPI continue to be relevant, or will some new programming system replace it? Bill’s talk will review the reasons for MPI’s success, including the addition of new features in MPI-2, MPI-3, and planned for MPI-4, and argues why MPI will continue to be the parallel programming system for highly scalable applications.
* Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: “Getting Insider Information via the New MPI Tools Information Interface”
MPI 3.0 introduced a new interface for MPI support tools called the MPI Tools Information Interface. With this interface, for the first time, tools can access MPI internal performance and configuration information.
* David Lecomber, Allinea Software: “HPC’s a-changing, so what happens to everything we know?”
The world of HPC is changing faster than it has changed for a long time. HPC has a wider reach than ever. With so much in flux – what does that mean and what can be done for HPC insiders to thrive in the new world?
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Workshops and Tutorials at EuroMPI: Register Now
EuroMPI has a commitment to a strong programme of tutorials, with this year’s tutorials on Sunday 25th September including:
* Machine Learning at Scale – Tom Ashby, IMEC, Belgium, & Tom Vander Aa, Exascience Lab at IMEC, Belgium.
This tutorial aims to give the HPC audience insight into the needs and opportunities for using HPC tools for machine learning on large data sets.
* Survival in an MPI World – George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee.
In this tutorial, we will present a holistic approach to fault tolerance by introducing multiple fault management techniques, while maintaining the focus on User Level Failure Mitigation (ULFM), a minimal extension of the MPI specification to introduce resilience in applications.
Full details of the tutorials are available at:
http://www.eurompi2016.ed.ac.uk/tutorials
Registration closes on the 19th of September 2016. Details of how to register are available at http://www.eurompi2016.ed.ac.uk/
