My summer at MCS in MPICH group proved to be an invaluable learning
experience.  Generally, the atmosphere was quite catering and it was a
pleasure to share ideas and learn from the best in the field.  Specific
accomplishments included the following:

- a more specific understanding of MPICH2, its code, and its strategies
- the beginning of factorization of common channel code within the MPICH2
code base
- extending the SMP (ssm) MPICH2 channel to do MPI-2 dynamic processing,
allowing shared memory between any processes when on the same host
- helped ask questions about future process manager interface design
requirements in order to elegantly cater for dynamic processing support
- understanding of previous research papers performed by MCS members
- offered feedback to common communication subsystem postdoc developers

Overall, I can say that I learned a tremendous amount this summer and had
a great experience within MCS.  For the future, researching ties have been
created hopefully allowing for future collaboration(s).


Brad Penoff