For the past year+ there have been many indicators that fundamental changes in the enterprise software development market are well underway. In particular, it sure seemed like the monolithic predominance of traditional JEE app servers was starting to break up.

Last week at the HPC on Wall Street conference (it's a really nice one-day format ... hope this is a growing trend!) I helped with the keynote panel entitled What's Hot in HPC (audio here). Along the way I mentioned in passing that MPI is dead. Dead as in assuming room temperature, dead as in let's write an epitaph, dead as in maybe it'd be polite to start talking about something much more useful.