[OFIWG-MPI] Priority feature list for MPI

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Fri Apr 1 13:51:30 PDT 2016


> Libfabrics man pages list many features that fulfill requirements of
> different applications.
> 
> Existing OFI providers have implemented some of these features and dropped
> the other.
> 
> For a new HPC provider, what are the most important OFI features needed
> for MPI (priority-wise) ?

All MPIs make use of internal communication abstractions.  For Intel MPI, the tagged matching interfaces align well with one of the layers.  As Jeff mentioned in his email, other MPIs and other internal layers will make use of different features.

- Sean


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