Multi-platform MPI from Aachen publicly available

Aachen 11 Jul 99 The University of Aachen announced the first release of a multi-platfom MPI-1 called MP-MPICH. It is based on the standard MPICH distribution.

MP-MPICH differs from the current MPICH in the following aspects.

It is a single source tree which compiles under Unix and Windows NT and includes special communication devices and a remote-execution tool for Windows NT.

MP-MPICH is a superset of SCI-MPICH which allows inter-process communication directly via a fast SCI-interconnect. This results in message latencies of less than 7 us between distinct nodes. SCI-MPICH is usable with PCI-SCI-adapters of Dolphin.

Check out the Aachen web site for more information: www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de/~joachim/MP-MPICH.html

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