MPI (Message Passing Interface) is rapidly gaining wide acceptance as the future standard for message-passing programming. All major HPC hardware vendors support MPI or have announced that they will do so. Public domain implementations are already available.
The MPI Forum reconvened during 1995 to address new functionality and to develop an MPI-2 standard. MPI-2 is a superset of MPI and is expected to be finalized by end of 1996. A first set of extensions (for dynamic process creation) will be publically presented at Supercomputing '95 in San Diego.
The 2nd European MPI Workshop is the successor of the highly successful 1st European MPI Workshop hold in January 1994 at INRIA (organized by PALLAS and GMD). This workshop is organized by the Vienna Centre for Parallel Computing (VCPC) and PALLAS and sponsored by the ESPRIT project PPPE. The complete agenda of events follows.
January 22/23: MPI Training Course
January 23: Workshop on Language Extensions for Task and Data Parallelism and their Implementation
January 24: MPI-2 Open Meeting: MPI Forum presentation of MPI-2 and open discussion with European MPI application developers and all other attendees
January 25/26: MPI-2 Forum meeting
Patricipants may register for one or more of the above events. There are separate announcements for the training course and the workshop.
MPI-2 Open Meeting/ MPI-2 Forum: Hotel Regina, Rooseveltplatz 15
European software developers with experience in message passing programming or tool development. Participants from universities, research organizations, and industry are welcome to attend. Participants of ESPRIT projects, such as EUROPORT and PPPE, are expected to take part. HPC hardware vendors should send representatives. The maximum number of participants is limited.
MPI-2 Forum meeting:
Although the MPI-2 is open to anybody who wants to come, it is recommended that only those with a strong and continuous interest in MPI-2 attend.
Tutorial: (see separate announcement)
Workshop: (see separate announcement)
PALLAS: mpi2-week@pallas.de or www.pallas.de or VCPC: mpi2-week@vcpc.univie.ac.at or www.vcpc.ac.at
The events are supported by the PPPE project, funded by the ESPRIT research programme of the European Union. This support is gratefully acknowledged.