Compile/run-time support for threaded MPI execution on multiprogrammed shared memory machines
Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Program transformation and runtime support for threaded MPI execution on shared-memory machines
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Thread-safety in an MPI implementation: Requirements and analysis
Parallel Computing
Toward Efficient Support for Multithreaded MPI Communication
Proceedings of the 15th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface
Test suite for evaluating performance of multithreaded MPI communication
Parallel Computing
Fine-Grained Multithreading Support for Hybrid Threaded MPI Programming
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Parallel models for a discrete variable wavepacket propagation
ICCS'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Computational science: PartII
Issues in developing a thread-safe MPI implementation
EuroPVM/MPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European PVM/MPI User's Group conference on Recent advances in parallel virtual machine and message passing interface
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Abstract: In 1994, we presented extensions to MPI and offered an early paper on potential thread extensions to MPI as well as non-blocking collective extensions to MPI. The present paper is a thorough review of thread issues in MPI, including alternative models, their computational uses, and the impact on implementations. A number of issues are addressed: barriers to thread safety in MPI implementations with MPICH as an example and changes of the semantics of non-thread-safe MPI calls, different thread models, their uses, and possible integration. Minimal portable thread management and synchronization mechanisms API extensions for MPI are considered. A tentative design for multi-threaded thread-safe ADI and Channel Device for MPICH is proposed. We consider threads as both an implementation device for MPI and as a user-level mechanism to achieve fine-grain concurrency. The reduction of the process to a simple resource container (as considered by Mach), with the thread as the main named computational unit is suggested. Specific results thus far with Windows NT version of MPICH are mentioned.