VT MPI within EGI

General Project Information

• Leader: CZ ?, ES ?, IE ?
• Mailing List: vt-mpi at mailman.egi.eu; Members: Enol Fernandez, Alvaro Lopez, Pablo Orvi, Isabel Campos, Gergely Sipos, Karolis Eigelis.
• Status: Active
• Start Date: 10/Nov/2011
• End Date:
• Meetings:

Motivation

Despite a dedicated SA3 activity to support MPI there still seem to be significant issues in uptake and satisfaction amongst the user communities. This VT

• Works with user communities and projects that use MPI resources (e.g. ITER, MAPPER, A&A, etc) to demonstrate that MPI can work successfully in EGI.
• Sets up a VO on EGI with sites committed to support MPI jobs.
• Improve the communication between MPI users and developers of MPI support within EGI SA3.

Output

The VT is expected to produce the following outputs:

• Materials (tutorials, white papers, etc) about successful use cases of MPI on EGI that can be used by new communities to use MPI on EGI.
• An MPI VO that provides:
  • dedicated CPUs for MPI jobs
  • MPI specific test probes can run on all sites using the VO Monitoring services of Ibergrid (EGI-InSPIRE VO Services group)
  • accounting for MPI jobs
  • user support
• Improved communication channels with MPI users
• The above set of resources and feedback to resource centers, user communities and technology providers on how to improve MPI within EGI.

Members

• NGIs (not confirmed yet):
  • CZ,
  • MC,
  • HR:
  • ES,
  • PT,
  • IE,
  • GR: (Dimitris Dellis <ntell@-nospam-iasa.gr>, Marios Chatziangelou <mhaggel@iasa.gr>, Paschalis Korosoglou <pkoro@grid.auth.gr>
  • IT,
  • SK
• EGI.eu: Karolis Eigelis

Progress

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