The Scalable Tools Communication Infrastructure Collaboration Scalable Tools for Scientific Simulation

The Scalable Tools Communication Infrastructure initiative (STCI) is a newly initiated collaboration of Industry, Academia, and National Laboratories.  It is bringing together best practices, to develop an Open Source common, scalable, portable, and extensible run-time and communication infrastructure for the deployment of developer tools on the emerging peta- and exa-scale high performance computing systems.

Traditionally, tools infrastructure has been developed by single organizations as frameworks specific to a single tool (e.g. TotalView) or as generic, tool independent, scalable communication infrastructure (e.g. MRNet).  The new class of peta- and exa-scale systems are going to demand significantly greater scalability from such infrastructure than has been required in the past.  This is going to make it much more difficult to absorb the cost of developing, porting and maintaining both the infrastructure and the tool. The STCI initiative is aimed at amortizing this cost across a broad community, while at the same time providing a common API for developing the next generation of high performance computing tools.

This workshop is a technical meeting of the STCI collaboration, and is open to all parties of interest.  It is intended to bring together implementers and potential users of this infrastructure, to discuss current state, and future plans to ensure that this work is indeed meeting the expressed need for this common tool infrastructure.  A series of presentations by current participants on the design and implementation of the STCI infrastructure will form the basis for discussion of current state, and how to improve this state.

Current collaborators include IBM, Krell Institute (the Open|SpeedShop project), Indiana University, The University of Oregon, The Renaissance Computing Institute, The University of Tennessee, The University of Wisconsin, Argonne National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

STCI web site: http://stci.wikidot.com/
(which will be moved to http://www.scalabletools.org/, targeting new parties of interest)

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