ESTS1098 MPICH.

MPICH, Message Passing Interface (MPI) Subroutine Library for Parallel Computers and Networks

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHODS, RESTRICTIONS, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES, AUXILIARIES, STATUS, REFERENCES, HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: MPICH.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
MPICH	ESTS1098/01	Arrived	03-FEB-1999

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
ESTS1098/01	Many Computers

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

MPICH is a portable implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard. A general-purpose library, it contains routines with which to write message-passing programs for a variety of parallel computers and workstation networks.

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4. METHODS

No specific mathematical methods or numerical algorithms are included.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Execution time depends entirely on the program that uses this library.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES

MPI is a specification standard for a message-passing library. As such, it is expected to become available in non-portable, proprietary versions from vendors. This implementation, however, will be portable from one parallel environment to another.

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8. RELATED OR AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
ESTS1098/01	03-FEB-1999	Masterfiled Arrived

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10. REFERENCES

ESTS1098/01, included references:

- W. Gropp and E. Lusk:
  Installation Guide to mpich, a Portable Implementation of MPI.
  ANL-96/5 (July 1996)
- W. Gropp and E. Lusk:
  Users Guide for mpich, a Portable Implementation of MPI.
  ANL-96/6 (July 1996)

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11. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: No special hardware is required.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
ESTS1098/01	C-LANGUAGE, FORTRAN

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13. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Unix and OSF-1.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

For some computer environments, MPICH requires auxiliary packages, e.g., CHAMELEON, p4, or PVM. None of these auxiliary packages are proprietary.

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

                   Gropp, W. and Lusk, E.
                   Argonne National Laboratory
                   Argonne, Illinois, U. S. A.

                   Doss, N. and Skjellum, A.
                   Mississippi State University
                   Mississippi State, Mississippi, U. S. A.

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

ESTS1098/01

COPYPRIGHT Copyright statement
README Basic information & instructions for configuring
README.hist Information from previous READMEs
bin Home for executable files like mpirun and mpiman
configure Script that you can run to create Makefiles throughout the system
aclocal.m4 Used for buidling configure from configure.in
ptx_ifile File needed by Sequent Symmetry running the PTX operating system
doc Assorted documentation
ref Postscript versions of reference manuals
configure.in Input to autoconf that produces configure
examples Directory containing further directories of example MPI programs
include User and system include libraries
man Man pages for MPI, MPA & internal routines
mpe Source code for MPE extensions for logging and X graphics
ccbugs Directory for programs testing C compiler during configuration
mpid Src code for various devices that customize mpich for part. machine, os & env.
installtest A place to test installation script
src Source code for portable part of mpich
util Utility programs and files
profiling Profiling subsystem
Makefile.in Template for the Makefile, produced when running configure

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17. CATEGORIES

P. General Mathematical and Computing System Routines

Keywords: computer networks, parallel processing.