The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Ken Raffenetti (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Yanfei Guo (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Hui Zhou (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Simon Pickartz (ParTec AG, Germany), Maria Garzaran (Intel Corporation), Nathaniel Shineman (The Ohio State University), Mike Wilkins (Cornelis Networks), Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA Corporation), Naveen Ravichandrasekaran (Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)), Thomas Applencourt (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL))
Abstract: MPICH is a widely used, open-source implementation of the MPI message passing standard. It has been ported to many platforms and used by several vendors and research groups as the basis for their own MPI implementations. This BoF session will provide a forum for core MPICH developers to share new features and release plans with the community. Developers of MPI implementations derived from MPICH will share their own status updates and discuss experiences and issues in using and porting MPICH. Key users will be given an opportunity to present MPICH usage stories. Questions from the audience are welcome.
Long Description: MPICH is a widely used, open-source implementation of the MPI message passing standard. It has been ported to many platforms and used by several vendors and research groups as the basis for their own MPI implementations. This BoF session will provide a forum for core MPICH developers to share new features and release plans with the community. Developers of MPI implementations derived from MPICH will share their own status updates and discuss experiences and issues in using and porting MPICH. Key users will be given an opportunity to present MPICH usage stories. Questions from the audience are welcome.
This year we have commitments for presentations from MPICH partners such as Intel, HPE, MVAPICH, Parastation MPI, NVIDIA, and Cornelis Networks. A representative from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will tell us about how they use open source MPICH to power the Aurora supercomputer.
We have held this BoF in previous years at SC as a way to bring together the MPICH community (core developers, partners, and users). It has always been well attended (> 50 attendees), and feedback has been positive. The presentations help everyone to know where MPICH is going in the near term, and the Q&A allows for feedback about which changes or improvements users want in the software. Ultimately, the BoF enables MPICH teams to refine their development plans to better serve the community's needs.
Website: https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/wiki/2025-Supercomputing-BoF