ARCHITECTURE

Working Group Members

Lead: Bill Gropp - Argonne National Laboratory (gropp@mcs.anl.gov).

Rajeev Thakur - Argonne National Laboratory (thakur@mcs.anl.gov).

Alan Gara - IBM (alangara@us.ibm.com)

Key Activities :

1. Application needs of shared memory (e.g., how much consistency, access patterns).
2. Network needs for the I/O nodes.  What are the relatives costs and benefits of making them part of the torus?
3. Improving support for collective operations such as broadcast and allreduce.