MPICH 1.0.0 Beta

MPICH (MVAPICH2) software delivers best performance, scalability and fault tolerance for high-end computing systems and servers using InfiniBand, iWARP and other RDMA-enabled interconnect networking technologies. This software is being used by more than 540 organizations world-wide (Current Users) to extract the potential of these emerging networking technologies for modern systems. This software is also being distributed by many InfiniBand, iWARP and RDMA-enabled interconnect vendors in their software distributions. MVAPICH and MVAPICH2 are also available with Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) stack.
MVAPICH software is powering several supercomputers in the TOP 500 list. Examples (from the June 07 ranking) include:
- 15th, 5848-core Dell PowerEdge Intel EM64T 2.66 GHz cluster at Texas Advanced Computing Center/Univ. of Texas
- 19th, 9216-core Appro Quad Opteron dual Core 2.4 GHz at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- 71st, 2200-processors Apple Xserve 2.3 GHz cluster at Virginia Tech
Enhancements:
- New message coalesing, hot-spot avoidance, application-initiated systems-level checkpointing, APM support, multi-rail support for iWARP, on-demand connection management for iWARP and uDAPL (including Solaris), RDMA read, and blocking support.
- The software was also updated to MPICH2 1.0.5p4.