Speaker
Jesper Träff
(Technical University of Vienna)
Description
MPI, the Message-Passing Interface, has, for better or
worse, for a considerable number of years been the de facto
programming interface for large scale scientific computing.
In this talk we will examine some of the reasons why this
has happened, focusing on some of the salient features of
the MPI standard that has contributed to its usefulness and
longevity. The talk will do so by also looking into the long
and perhaps not so well-known history of the development
of MPI, will and conclude with an outlook on the recently
announced MPI 3.0 version of the standard.
