[datampi-announce] The first version (0.5.0) of DataMPI is released!

[MPI-D]

The DataMPI team is pleased to announce the availability of the first release (DataMPI-0.5.0).

DataMPI is an efficient, flexible, productive, and open-source communication library, which provides a set of Key-Value pair based communication interfaces that extends MPI for Big Data. Through utilizing the efficient communication technologies in the High-Performance Computing area, DataMPI can speedup the emerging data-intensive computing applications. DataMPI takes a step in bridging these two fields.

WebSite: http://datampi.org
A list of features in this release includes:
  - First high-performance implementation of the Common mode in the MPI-D specification
  - Easy to program data-intensive computing applications
  - Support hybrid programming with MPI and MPI-D
  - MPI-1.1 compliance (inherit from mpiJava) and support the feature of dynamic process management in MPI-2
  - Integration of several important features from Apache Hadoop 0.20.2
  - Support performance profiling and tuning
  - Easy to build and config
  - Tested with
    - Multiple backend MPI implementations (MVAPICH2, MPICH2, etc.)
    - Various multi-core platforms
    - Different file systems (ext3/4, HDFS, etc.)

We also released DataMPI Benchmark 0.5.0 within the package.

Regards,

The DataMPI Team