MPI-IO Background

• Marc Snir et al. (IBM Watson) paper exploring MPI as context for parallel I/O (1994, after MPI-1)

• MPI-IO e-mail discussion group led by Jean-Pierre Prost (IBM) and Bill Nitzberg (NASA)

• MPI-IO group joins MPI-2 Forum in June 1996

• MPI-2 standard released in July 1997

  • http://www.mpi-forum.org
  • book published by MIT Press

• Multiple implementations of MPI-IO are available

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