Alexander Supalov, PhD, is Intel Cluster Tools Architect and a Senior Staff Engineer at Intel Corporation responsible for setting the direction of the Intel Cluster Studio XE and its components: Intel MPI Library, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector, and Intel MPI Benchmarks. Alexander spent most of the time since early 90 s designing various message passing libraries for different platforms and using them at system and application levels. He was on the team that developed PARMACS 6.0 in 1993, the first full MPI-2 implementation in 2000, and the first Intel MPI Library in 2004 that became a tru...