SBIR Phase I: MPI-2: A Systematic Study, Design, and Commercialization of the Extended Message Passing Interface for NOWs and Parallel Computers

9860997 这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将合并MPI软件技术公司。的无与伦比的MPI实施经验与整个MPI 2标准的科学分析。 该分析将检查MPI 2的每个主要功能子系统以及这些子系统之间的交互。该分析将指导异构环境中可扩展和动态流程启动的创新，以及单边通信、集体操作和并行I/O的高级算法和多算法方法。 这项研究的完成是为了从第一原则创建MPI 2标准的质量设计，目标是广泛的当前和未来系统，包括NOW和MPP。 此外，MPI 2关键要素的原型将作为向科学、研究、商业和其他社区提供MPI 2高质量实施的基础。 全球中小型企业以及需要执行科学和工程计算的学术界和大型行业可以从经济高效的高性能集群和MPI中受益。 数据挖掘数据库计算、碰撞测试代码和半商业的学术代码都具有商业相关性。 科学家对超级计算机周期访问的减少增加了高质量软件的重要性，以利用具有成本效益的工作站/PC集群和新兴的千兆网络。

9860997 This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will merge MPI Software Technology, Inc.'s unparalleled MPI implementation experience with a scientific analysis of the entire MPI 2 standard. This analysis will examine each major functionality subsystem of MPI 2 as well as the interactions among these. This analysis will guide innovations in scalable and dynamic process startup in heterogeneous environments, and in advanced algorithmic and poly-algorithmic approaches to one sided communication, collective operations, and parallel I/O. This research shall be accomplished in order to create a quality design of the MPI 2 Standard from first principles, targeting a far-reaching range of present and future systems including NOWs and MPPs. Also, a prototype of key elements of MPI 2 will serve as a basis for providing the scientific, research, business, and other communities with a quality implementation of MPI 2. Small to medium enterprises worldwide, as well as academics and large industries that need to perform scientific and engineering computations, can benefit from cost effective, high performance clusters plus MPI. Data mining database computations, crash test codes, and semi- commercial academic codes have commercial relevance. The waning of supercomputer cycle access for scientists has increased the importance of high quality software to harness clusters of cost-effective workstations/PCs and emerging gigabit networks.