Design_Documentation_Index.md

Design Documentation

• Architecture

  • Atomic Operations
  • Checkpointing Implementation
  • Checkpointing Notes
  • Communicators and Context IDs
  • DAME
  • DTPools
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Function Name Prefix Convention
  • Include Files in MPICH
  • Internal Instrumentation
  • KVS Caching
  • Local and Global MPI Process IDs
  • MPICH Architecture Overview
  • Parameters in MPICH
  • Process Groups and Virtual Connections
  • Processing MPI Datatypes
  • Reference Counting
  • Reporting and Returning Error Codes
  • Sharing Blocking Resources
  • The Progress Engine

• CH4

  • Overall Design
  • Process Address Translation

• CH3

  • Channels
  • VC Protocol
    • Object Model
    • Netmod Packet Types
  • Changes and ADI3

• Collectives

  • Collective Selection Framework
  • Collectives Framework
  • Overriding Collective Functions

• Debugging

  • Debug Event Logging
  • Debugger Message Queue Access
  • Message Queue Debugging
  • Support for Debugging Memory Allocation

• Hydra

  • Hydra Process Management Framework

• Misc

  • Proposed MPIEXEC Extensions
  • MPICH Parameters and Instrumentation Tool Interface
  • Best Practices

• Nemesis

  • Dynamic Processes and Connections
  • Network Module API
  • Runtime Netmod Selection
  • TCP Netmod State Machine

• PMI

  • [Process-Management Interface] (PMI.md)
  • PMI-v2 notes (outdated)
  • Specification
  • API
  • Design Thoughts
  • Wire Protocol

• RMA

  • ADI Interface
  • New Dessign
  • Implementation
  • Old RMA Design

• Sockets

  • Establishing Socket Connections
  • Socket Connection Protocol
  • Socket Thread Safety Mechanism

• Threads

  • Making MPICH Thread Safe
  • Thread Safety Chart
  • Thread Private Storage