MPI 3.0 Standardization Effort

Scope:

Additions to the MPI 3.0 standard that are needed for better platform and application support.  These are to be consistent with MPI being a library that provides parallel process management and data exchange capabilities.  This includes, but is not limited to, issues associated with scalability (performance and robustness), multi-core support, cluster support, and applications support.

Working Groups:

• Collective Communications and Topology
• Fault Tolerance
• Fortran Bindings
• Remote Memory Access
• Tools Support
• Hybrid Programming
• Backwards Compatibility
• Persistence
• Chapter Working Groups

MPI-3 Voting rules:

Draft Standard - These drafts are approved by the MPI Forum, and are snap shots of the evolving standard. The contents have been voted on and approved by the full Forum, but may change as the standardization process proceeds. Comments on the evolving standard are welcome.

• Supercomputing 2010 MPI-3 overview