Open MPI

Introduction

Open MPI is a Message Passing Interface (MPI) library project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI). It is used by many TOP500 supercomputers including Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer from June 2008 to November 2009, and K computer, the fastest supercomputer from June 2011 to June 2012.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/openmpi/bin/*
% /util/openmpi/lib/* 		1.4.2 (default)

People

  1. Vipin Chaudhary, instructor.
  2. Bina Ramamurthy, instructor.

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_MPI
  2. http://www.open-mpi.org/