Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines

G. Al Geist

doi:10.1007/3-540-45417-9_2

Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines

G. Al Geist

National Center for Computational Scienc

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Abstract

High performance computing is on the verge of another major jump in scale and now is the time for us to begin creating superscalable applications and systems software if we are to exploit the coming machines. In the early 1990s there was a major jump in scalability from a few hundred to a few thousand processors. Throughout the 1990s the size of the largest machines remained around this scale and PVM and MPI were key to making these machines useable. Now we are seeing changes such as SETI@home and IBM’s Blue Gene systems that suddenly jump the scale of machines to 100,000 processors or more. Our software environment and applications are unprepared for this jump. This talk looks at the common software needs between these very different ways to get to this scale. The talk will argue that software may need to fundamentally change to allow us to exploit machines that approacha petascale. Interspersed withth is discussion will be results from researchgoing on today to increase the scalability, fault tolerance, and adaptability of MPI and systems software.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings
Editors	Yiannis Cotronis, Jack Dongarra
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	2-6
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	3540426094, 9783540426097
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_2
State	Published - 2001
Event	8th European on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 2001 - Santorini/Thera, Greece Duration: Sep 23 2001 → Sep 26 2001

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	2131
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	8th European on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 2001
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Santorini/Thera
Period	09/23/01 → 09/26/01

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Al Geist, G. (2001). Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines. In Y. Cotronis, & J. Dongarra (Eds.), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings (pp. 2-6). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2131). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_2

Al Geist, G. / Building a foundation for the next pvm : Petascale virtual machines. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings. editor / Yiannis Cotronis ; Jack Dongarra. Springer Verlag, 2001. pp. 2-6 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Al Geist, G 2001, Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines. in Y Cotronis & J Dongarra (eds), Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 2131, Springer Verlag, pp. 2-6, 8th European on Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users’ Group Meeting, 2001, Santorini/Thera, Greece, 09/23/01. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_2

Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines. / Al Geist, G.
Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings. ed. / Yiannis Cotronis; Jack Dongarra. Springer Verlag, 2001. p. 2-6 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 2131).

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Al Geist G. Building a foundation for the next pvm: Petascale virtual machines. In Cotronis Y, Dongarra J, editors, Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface - 8th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2001. p. 2-6. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/3-540-45417-9_2

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