About:
MPICH is a robust and flexible implementation of the MPI (Message Passing Interface). MPI is often used with parallel or distributed computing projects. MPICH is a multi-platform, configurable system (development, execution, libraries, etc) for MPI. It can acheive parallelism using networked machines or using mulitasking on a single machine.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This release adds many minor bugfixes and compiler workarounds, and updates the logging mechanisms and handling of shared libraries.

Author:
imipak [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.35/10.00 (1 vote)

Homepage:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/
Tar/GZ:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/download.html
Changelog:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/r1_2_7changes.html
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/mpich

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		Freely Distributable, OSI Approved, OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised)
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries, System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

Dependencies: [change]
Globus Toolkit (Default branch) (optional)
Portable OpenSSH (Stable branch) (optional)
ssh (Default branch) (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.7	04-Aug-2005	OSI Approved
MPICH2 MPICH with MPI-2 extensions.	1.0.7	02-May-2008	Freely Distributable
MVAPICH2 MPICH2 with RDMA devices.	1.0.3	02-Jul-2008	BSD License (revised)
OSU Micro-Benchmarks MPI Benchmarks for MPICH and derivatives.	3.1	29-Mar-2008	BSD License (revised)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.2.7	Minor bugfixes	04-Aug-2005 00:32
1.2.6	Major bugfixes	17-Sep-2004 06:58
1.2.5.2	Major feature enhancements	29-Oct-2003 14:12

 Articles referencing this project

• Linux Clustering Software
  by Joe Greenseid , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Jun 1st 2002 00:00