MPICH

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MPICH is a freely available, portable implementation of MPI, a standard for message-passing for distributed-memory applications used in parallel computing. MPICH is Free Software and is available for most flavours of Unix (including Linux and Mac OS X) and Microsoft Windows. Moreover, MPICH is a developed program library.

The original implementation of MPICH is called MPICH1 and it implements the MPI-1.1 standard. As of 2006, the latest implementation is called MPICH2 and it implements the MPI-2.0 standard, but does not yet support data translations between different hardware architectures.

[edit] External links

• MPICH Home Page
• MPI standards documents

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