Konstantin Karganov wrote:
>>The Open MPI Team will be at SC this year.
>>I am co-hosting a BOF entitled "Why MPI Makes You Scream! And how can
>>we simplify parallel debugging?"
>>
>>
>By the way (though it may be offtopic here)...
>
>Does anybody know some statistics on MPI usage. e.i. :
>- percentage of C, C++, Fortran MPI programs
>- percentage of SPMD and MPMD programs
>- MPI function an function groups usage (how many people use
>topologies, asynchronous IO, communicator attributes etc.)
>- average number of nodes for running and for debugging
>
>I suppose this can be interesting for all MPI community as a valuable
>feedback from those who use MPI for real applications. There was a
>survey on SC'93 on the usage of debugging tools (
>http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/pancake94what.html ) and It might be
>possible (if its not too late now) to do something alike.
>
>
There has been at least one project analysing these kind of things, look
e.g. at
http://www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner/publ/publications.html
for papers about automatic MPI counter profiling. These were studies
about the usage of MPI at two different HPC centers.
Best regards
Edgar
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>Konstantin.
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