[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[C Bergström]

Given the relatively low volume here I may not disagree with you, but
the topics may touch on something that others consider "trollish" -
Having a focused group allows those who are interested to participate
and others who simply don't care about MPI-alternatives or my opinions
about what sucks.

I also plan to promote the group besides just here - I don't feel
comfortable advertising a bunch of people to subscribe to a beowulf
mailing list which I can't even help moderate. (Seems impolite at
best)

Thanks

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Prentice Bisbal
<prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On 03/04/2016 05:43 AM, C Bergström 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
>
>
> I think the beowulf lift serves that exact purpose rather well. I honestly
> don't see the need for a separate list for those topics, I think this list
> is an appropriate venue. But since I hate to be left out of any
> conversation, I subscribed to it any way.
>>
>>
>> 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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