MPI-4.0:

MPI-4.0 is a major update to the MPI standard.

The editors and organizers of the MPI-4.0 have been:

• Martin Schulz, MPI-4.0 Chair, Info Object, External Interfaces
• Richard Graham, MPI-4.0 Treasurer
• Wesley Bland, MPI-4.0 Secretary, Backward Incompatibilities
• William Gropp, MPI-4.0 Editor, Steering Committee, Front Matter, Introduction, One-Sided Communications, and Bibliography
• Rolf Rabenseifner, Steering Committee, Process Topologies, Deprecated Functions, Removed Interfaces, Annex Language Bindings Summary, and Annex Change-Log

• Purushotham V. Bangalore, Language Bindings
• Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Terms and Conventions
• George Bosilca, Datatypes and Environmental Management
• Ryan E. Grant, Partitioned Communication
• Marc-André Hermanns, Tool Support
• Daniel Holmes, Point-to-Point Communication, Sessions
• Guillaume Mercier, Groups, Contexts, Communicators, Caching
• Howard Pritchard, Process Creation and Management
• Anthony Skjellum, Collective Communication, I/O

As part of the development of MPI-4.0, a number of working groups were established. In some cases, the work for these groups overlapped with multiple chapters. The following describes the major working groups and the leaders of those groups:

Collective Communication, Topology, Communicators:

Torsten Hoefler, Andrew Lumsdaine, and Anthony Skjellum

Fault Tolerance:

Wesley Bland, Aurélien Bouteiller, and Richard Graham

Hardware-Topologies:

Guillaume Mercier

Hybrid & Accelerator:

Pavan Balaji and James Dinan

Large Counts:

Jeff Hammond

Persistence:

Anthony Skjellum

Point to Point Communication:

Daniel Holmes and Richard Graham

Remote Memory Access:

William Gropp and Rajeev Thakur

Semantic Terms:

Purushotham V. Bangalore and Rolf Rabenseifner

Sessions:

Daniel Holmes and Howard Pritchard

Tools:

Kathryn Mohror and Marc-André Hermanns

The following list includes some of the active participants who attended MPI Forum meetings or participated in the e-mail discussions.

The MPI Forum also acknowledges and appreciates the valuable input from people via e-mail and in person.

The following institutions supported the MPI-4.0 effort through time and travel support for the people listed above.

ATOS
Argonne National Laboratory
Arm
Auburn University
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
CEA
Cisco Systems Inc.
Cray Inc.
EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
ETH Zürich
Fujitsu
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
German Research School for Simulation Sciences
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
International Business Machines
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (Inria)
Intel Corporation
Jülich Supercomputing Center, Forschungszentrum Jülich
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Kyushu University
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lenovo
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
NEC Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PAR-TEC
Paratools, Inc.
RIKEN AICS (R-CCS as of 2017)
RWTH Aachen University
Rutgers University
Sandia National Laboratories
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Technical University of Munich
The HDF Group
The Ohio State University
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Tokyo Institute of Technology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Basel, Switzerland
University of Houston
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Innsbruck
University of Oregon
University of Potsdam
University of Stuttgart, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Tokyo
VSC Research Center, TU Wien