Great news Jeff....
Will OpenMPI support migration of STL/nested Objects?
Many thanks
-Ton
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-----Original Message-----
From: lam-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:lam-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of
Damien Hocking
Sent: 23 September 2004 18:47
To: General LAM/MPI mailing list
Subject: Re: LAM: Next generation LAM/MPI: Open MPI
Allright! This is going to be awesome.
Damien
Jeff Squyres wrote:
> As you are undoubtedly aware, we just released LAM/MPI 7.1 this past
> weekend. This seems like a fortuitous time to fill you in on some of
> our future plans with regards of LAM/MPI and our ongoing research work.
>
> As we have hinted at a few times over the past few months on the LAM
> user's mailing list, we have some heavy duty research and development
> efforts that have been progressing behind the scenes for quite some
> time. Indeed, our next-generation of LAM/MPI is so different that we
> gave it a new name: Open MPI.
>
> Over the past year, we took all the "best" stuff out of the LAM 7.x
> series, merged it with similar "best" technologies from LA-MPI (from
> Los Alamos National Laboratory), FT-MPI (from the University of
> Tennessee), PACX-MPI (from the University of Stuttgart), and MVAPICH
> (from The Ohio State University). Developers from all 5 institutions
> are working together on this project to put together one stupendous
> implementation of MPI. Open MPI will be our path forward for new and
> exciting research directions -- it's fundamentally designed to be a
> production-quality implementation, yet also be highly customizable to
> the system administrator and end user while also allowing third party
> developers to use it as a stable development platform for their own
> research about parallel computing.
>
> Here's an abbreviated list of features in Open MPI:
>
> - All of MPI-1 and MPI-2
> - Support the popular commodity high-speed networks:
> - TCP
> - Shared memory
> - Myrinet
> - Infiniband
> - Quadrics
> - True simultaneous multi-device transport support (e.g., striping
> across multiple networks)
> - Full support for MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE
> - Asynchronous message passing progress
>
> There's no publicly-available software yet -- our first release will
> be at the Supercomputing conference in the 2nd week of November (if
> you're coming to SC, stop by and see us at the Indiana University, Los
> Alamos, or Krell booths). We're making this [perhaps premature]
> announcement because a) several papers about Open MPI were presented
> at the Euro PVM/MPI conference this week, and b) the Open MPI web site
> is now open for business (http://www.open-mpi.org/). Hence, rather
> than answer everyone's questions individually, we figured that we'd
> share the great news pre-emptively. :-)
>
> Stop by the Open MPI web site for a few more details and to sign up on
> the announcements mailing list:
>
> http://www.open-mpi.org/
>
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