The java-mpi Mailing List
Charter
java-mpi@npac.syr.edu is an open discussion list for people interested in developing or using Java bindings to the Message Passing Interface standard, MPI.Suggested topics for discussion include
- Issues relating to agreement of a common Java Grande API for MPI (a draft proposal can be found in the appendix of the "MPI for Java" position document).
- Issues about implementing MPI functionality in Java. Implementations can be 100% Java, or Java wrappers to native MPI implementations.
- User's experiences developing parallel application codes in Java, using an MPI binding. Experiences using Java as a vehicle for teaching message-passing parallel programming are very welcome.
- Parallel benchmark codes written in Java, using an MPI binding. Results of running such benchmarks.
Administration
To subscribe to the java-mpi list, send the commandsubscribe java-mpiin the body of an email addressed to Majordomo@npac.syr.edu.
Monthly archives are available through the Majordomo index and get commands. (The following MHonArc-generated pages may not be up-to-date.)
API and other issues
Most of the emails collected below predate establishment of the java-mpi list---largely exchanges between coauthors of the "MPI for Java" technical report. Some of them are from other Java Grande discussion lists and a few are from users of NPAC's mpiJava software.- Goals of MPI for Java efforts. Includes thread from java-for-cse, comparing MPI with RMI, etc.
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Specifics on designing an API:
- ``Environmental Management'' API. Includes discussions about initialization of MPI, and threads vs processes.
- Derived datatypes and serialization API. Marshalling arguments for send, receive and other communications.
- Medley. Conformance with Sun coding conventions, handling of multidimensional arrays, overloading method names, constructors, group operations, request sets, returning objects, attribute cacheing, etc.
- MPI for Java in education
- Inputs to the "MPI for Java" TR
- Establishment of the java-mpi list