Establishing Standards for
HPC System Software and Tools

Index

• Author & Abstract
• Chapter 1 -- Introduction
• Chapter 2 -- Why Software Standards Are Important for HPC
  1. The User's Perspective
  2. The Developer's Perspective
  3. The Need for Standards
• Chapter 3 -- How HPC Differs from Other Areas of Standardization
  1. The Nature of the HPC Community Constrains Standardization
  2. The Window-of-Opportunity Problem
  3. Bringing HPC Standards to Success
  4. A National Task Force to Standardize Requirements for HPC Software
• Chapter 4 -- Tool Support for Application Development
  1. Basic Shells and Utilities
  2. Compilers, Assemblers, and Translators
  3. Program Analysis
  4. Support for Building Applications
• Chapter 5 -- Tool Support for Debugging
  1. Source-level Location Information
  2. Source-level Interactive Debugger
• Chapter 6 -- Tool Support for Performance Tuning
  1. Application Timing Information
  2. Information on Application Events
  3. Information on the Application's Resource Utilization
• Chapter 7 -- Low-Level Programming Interface
  1. Message-Passing Libraries
  2. Other Parallel Libraries
  3. Math Libraries
  4. Timing and Other Performance Support
  5. Support for Parallel I/O
• Chapter 8 -- Operating System Services
  1. Base Services
  2. Support for Job Management
  3. Support for Checkpointing
  4. Support for Resource Management
  5. File System Support
  6. System Availability Features
  7. Protocol Support
• Chapter 9 -- Other System Software and Tools
  1. Tool Support for Resource Administration
  2. Tool Support for System Analysis, Debugging, and Tuning
  3. Support for Tool Documentation
• Chapter 10 -- Moving HPC Standards Forward
  1. Outcomes of the Task Force
  2. New Efforts in HPC Standards
  3. What You Can Do to Foster Standardization of HPC Software
• References