MP-MPICH

This is MP-MPICH, Version 1.5.0, Dec 2007, an MPI-Implementation for Linux, Solaris and 
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, supporting TCP/IP and the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) for 
high-performance inter-process communication.

For more information (installation & usage), please read doc/mp-mpich_manual.pdf. Also
take a look at http://www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de/mp-mpich for up-to-date information.

Bugs should be submitted via the Trac interface, accessable from the URL given above.

General comments and license inquiries for commercial exploitation of MP-MPICH should
be sent to mp-mpich@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de.

Contributors to MP-MPICH are:
  Boris Bierbaum      (SCI, multi device)
  Carsten Clauss      (MetaMPICH, ch_usock device)
  Rainer Finocchiaro  (SCI, Documentation and Release)
  Martin Pöppe        (MetaMPICH)
  Karsten Scholtyssik (all Windows related stuff)
  Silke Schuch        (all Windows related stuff, successor of Karsten)
  Joachim Worringen   (all SCI & Unix related stuff, interface extensions, ...)
  

and others from the "Lehrstuhl für Betriebssysteme", RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
(http://www.lfbs.rwth-aachen.de)


MP-MPICH is based on MPICH by ANL:

		      Portable MPI Model Implementation

        		  Version 1.2.0, December 1999 and some later additions

                         David Ashton
                         Anthony Chan
                          Bill Gropp
                          Rusty Lusk
                         Debbie Swider
                         Rajeev Thakur
                  Argonne National Laboratory

However, it has developed apart from MPICH, featuring an extented device interface and 
other features like:
  - MPI-2 one-sided communication,
  - support for multiple devices compiled into the library, and
  - combining multiple clusters into a big "meta computer".
Nevertheless, a vast part of MP-MPICH is still MPICH.