MPI Implementations

  MPI implementationsimplementations At the time of writing several portable implementations of MPI exist,

• the MPICH implementation from Argonne National Laboratory and Mississippi State University [12], available by anonymous ftp at info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi. This version is layered on PVM or P4 and can be run on many systems.
• The CHIMP implementation from Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, available by anonymous ftp at ftp.epcc.ed.ac.uk/pub/chimp/release/chimp.tar.Z.
• the LAM implementation from the Ohio Supercomputing Center, a full MPI standard implementation using LAM, a UNIX cluster computing environment. Available by anonymous ftp at tbag.osc.edu/pub/lam.
• The UNIFY system provides a subset of MPI within the PVM environment, without sacrificing the PVM calls already available. Available by anonymous ftp at ftp.erc.msstate.edu/unify.

In addition, hardware-specific MPI implementations exist for the Cray T3D, the IBM SP-2, The NEC Cinju, and the Fujitsu AP1000.

Information on MPI implementations and other useful information on MPI can be found on the MPI web pages at Argonne National Laboratory (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi), and at Mississippi State Univ (http://www.erc.msstate.edu/mpi). Additional information can be found on the MPI newsgroup comp.parallel.mpi and on netlib.