[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[C Bergström]

A few people have subscribed and it's great to see some interest -
hopefully we can start some interesting discussions. Actually - my
background is more on the "web" side of HPC. I took a big jump when I
started working @pathscale - Over the past 6 years I've cringed more
than once when I see design that looks ***worse*** (I didn't think
possible) than hibernate with tons of outer joins and evil xml
configs.. (Java references for anyone unfortunate enough to get what
I'm saying)




On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Justin Y. Shi <shi at temple.edu> wrote:
> Thank you for creating the list. I have subscribed.
>
> Justin
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:43 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the shameless self indulgence, but there seems to be a
>> growing trend of love/hate around MPI. I'll leave my opinions aside,
>> but at the same time I'd love connect and host a list where others who
>> are passionate about scalability can vent and openly discuss ideas.
>>
>> Despite the comical name, I've created mpi-haters mailing list
>> http://lists.pathscale.com/mailman/listinfo/mpi-haters_lists.pathscale.com
>>
>> To start things off - Some of the ideas I've been privately bouncing
>> around
>>
>> Can current directive based approaches (OMP/ACC) be extended to scale
>> out. (I've seen some research out of Japan on this or similar)
>>
>> Is Chapel c-like syntax similar enough to easily implement in clang
>>
>> Can one low level library succeed at creating a clean interface across
>> all popular industry interconnects (libfabrics vs UCX)
>>
>> Real world success or failure of "exascale" runtimes? (What's your
>> experience - lets not pull any punches)
>>
>> I won't claim to see ridiculous scalability in most web applications
>> I've worked on, but they had so many tools available - Why have I
>> never heard of memcache being used in a supercomputer and or why isn't
>> sharding ever mentioned...
>>
>> Everyone is welcome and lets keep it positive and fun - invite your
>> friends
>>
>>
>> ./C
>>
>> ps - Apologies if you get this message more than once.
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