[Beowulf] Brice Goglin's seminar on OpenMX - 13/01/2008 at STFC Daresbury Lab

[Mark Hahn]

> I do not know how big the UK audience of this list is but hopefully a few of
> you may find it very interesting.

I don't suppose the seminar will be recorded or transmitted on AccessGrid,
will it?  it sounds very interesting...


> * * CSE SEMINAR * *
>
> You are invited to attend a CSED Seminar taking place on Tuesday 13 January
> 2009 in CR1, A Block at 2pm. The Seminar will be given by Brice Goglan from
> INRIA, France.
>
> Title: "High-Performance Message Passing over Ethernet with Open-MX, why and
> how?"
>
> Abstract: Open-MX is a message passing stack that offers the Myrinet Express
> features on top of regular Ethernet hardware. We will see what problems one
> can encounter when trying to mimic high-speed network capabilities without
> having advanced hardware support underneath. Several solutions based on
> I/OAT copy offload, interrupt affinities, and multiqueue support will be
> discussed. Finally, we will see how working on intra-node communication in
> Open-MX also lead to improving large message performance in MPICH2/Nemesis.