Thursday June 29, 2006

Sun hosted the Open MPI open source quarterly community meeting on our Burlington, MA campus on June 20-23 as part of our ongoing, active participation in this effort to develop a high-quality, scalable, cross-platform implementation of the MPI standard.

Sun's entire MPI engineering team participated in the meeting, which drew representatives from eight member organizations. Sun's current technical involvement is focused in the following areas:

Development of a plug-in to integrate the Open Run-Time Environment (OpenRTE) and Sun's N1GE (N1 GridEngine) distributed resource manager to support the launching of Open MPI parallel jobs.

The development of a Byte Transfer Layer (BTL) component to enable Open MPI communication over Infiniband using uDAPL.

Work on establishing a unified test suite and development processes to create stable, production-quality releases.

The community announced the release of Open MPI 1.1 during the meeting. Open MPI 1.2 is targeted for release at Supercomputing '06 in November. Sun's next release of MPI will be based on Open MPI 1.2 and will support Solaris on both SPARC and x64 systems with full support available from Sun.

The next meeting will be held on September 21-26, immediately following the Euro PVM/MPI 06 conference in Stuttgart.

Open MPI is a joint development effort involving the following academic, government and commercial members:

Cisco Systems
Indiana University
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mellanox Technologies
Myricom
Sandia National Laboratory
Sun Microsystems
University of Houston
University of Stuttgart
University of Tennessee
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