Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: frost@hydra.sdsc.edu (frost richard)
Subject: Inter-resource communication capabilities
Summary: mpi
Organization: SDSC
Date: 28 Jun 1995 02:02:44 GMT
Message-ID: <3sqd84$7pl@rosebud.sdsc.edu>


Hi,

At last week's MPI conference there were several off line discussions
about the demand for various kinds of inter-resource communication.

Here is a list of desired capabilities we encounter at our site.
For each type, I have tried to list references to existing projects in
the community which either provide solutions or most directly confront
these problems.

Each category can be broadly viewed as a variant of the M-to-N communication
problem, and thus as a functionality for MPI to provide (standardize).

We desire feedback on
        (1) what has been omitted (what did we miss?)
        (2) what is beyond the long-term scope of MPI and what
            alternatives for standardization or implementation exist
        (3) other efforts which currently provide solutions to these problems


TABLE of DISTRIBUTED INTER-RESOURCE COMMUNICATION TYPES

Category                                Persons or Projects
--------                                -------------------
Memory to/from Memory                   MPI; also Van de Geign et al.

Memory to/from Disk                     "Disk directed I/O", David Kotz
                                        at Dartmouth, PANDA project at UI

Memory to/from Network                  Steenkiste, CMU

Memory to Memory Subsample              VisLite, Richard Frost at SDSC
and Type Scaling
(e.g., for array visualization)

Memory to/from Object-Relational        "Computational Proxy", J. B.
DataBase server or client               Cushing, Oregon Graduate Institute
(i.e., backend or front end)

Object-Relational DataBase to/from      ~ AIMNET, Bob Grossman at U Chicago
(Distributed) Tertiary Storage
(e.g., Illustra to Unitree)

Memory to Tertiary Storage              Scalable I/O Initiative


-- 
Richard Frost
SDSC

