Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

• The hwloc software  5.2 is used for node topology discovery and process binding by the most popular MPI implementations, including MPICH2 and Open MPI and all their derivatives such as Intel MPI.

• The StarPU software  5.7 is used for dynamic scheduling by the state-of-the art dense linear algebra library, Magma v1.1 http://icl.cs.utk.edu/magma/ .

• Euro-Par is a major conference in parallel and distributed computing. It has been organized in Bordeaux from August 29 to September 2, 2011. It has featured 16 topics, 25 sessions and 12 workshops. 271 papers have been submitted and 81 papers have been accepted (29.9 %). Moreover 3 invited lectures have been given. 330 persons registered at either the conference or the workshops. The website is http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/ . The conference chairs were Emmanuel Jeannot, Raymond Namyst and Jean Roman. The institutions involved in the organization were INRIA, the LaBRI, the CNRS and others.