Sunday, March 16

5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Greenway C-H

MS16
Is Message-Passing Obsolete?

In parallel computing today, an interesting and important debate is taking place. Just as the message-passing paradigm is maturing and becoming standardized through the MPI effort, new shared-memory architectures implemented in both hardware and software are providing a new programming model. Experienced scientists disagree over whether the shared-memory model, advances in compiling techniques, and data-parallel languages like HPF will combine to make the more explicit parallel algorithm approach typified by message-passing obsolete. The speakers in this minisymposium will offer their opinions and experiences. Each speaker has experience with both approaches and can make particularly useful contributions to the debate.

Organizer: Ewing L. (Rusty) Lusk
Argonne National Laboratory

5:00 Message-Passing: Evolution and Convergence
Raja Daoud, Hewlett-Packard Company
5:30 Role of Message-Passing in Performance Oriented Parallel Programming
Vipin Kumar, George Karypis, and Ananth Y. Grama, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
6:00 Why HPF Should be the Panacea
Thomas Haupt, Geoffrey C. Fox, and Don Leskin, Syracuse University
6:30 Message-Passing, Global Addresses, and Cache Coherence: A Perspective on Coordinating Parallel Computation
Andrew A. Chien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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