Distributed Parallelism beyond MPI

In the past few years typical High Performance architectures have changed through the availability of multi-core processors. Many machines, from local clusters to the world-leading Blue Gene machines have many computational units (cores and/or processors) per node with gigabytes of memory shared between them. The most typical parallel strategy is to use MPI in order to connect multiple distributed memory nodes together. Within a node each processing unit is usually imagined to be as separate as those on a different node, hence memory may be replicated. In this project we are interested in how best to construct scientific algorithms on such systems without having this redundancy, through the combination of distributed MPI and shared memory techniques. The earliest start date for this project will be 1 October 2020.

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