Wednesday October 10, 2007 The InsideHPC blog points us to this article on on the value of adopting an application binary interface as a mechanism to stimulate ISV development:
"Through striving for optimal performance, the MPI standard reduces portability, however. The MPI-standard forces applications to be launched using the same MPI-implementation as the one they were compiled against. This is no problem when the application is compiled and launched on the same machine. However this is a severe constraint for shrink-wrapped software.
"Shrink-wrapped software is only available on a limited number of platforms which are selected by the application-developer. The HPC-world, in which MPI is mainly used, consists of many diverse platforms in contrast to the many X86 mainstream applications (e.g. office applications)." Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( October 10, 2007 05:00 AM ) PermalinkComments are closed for this entry.
