OPENMPI

Proiectul este un proiect open-source pentru implementarea standardului MPI-2 dezvoltat si mentinut de catre o echipa academica si de parteneri din industrie. Proiectul Open MPI combina astfel expertiza, tehnologia si resursele comunitatilor de High Performance Computing pentru a genera cea mai buna librarie MPI existenta.

Features implemented or in short-term development for Open MPI include:

• Full MPI-2 standards conformance
• Thread safety and concurrency
• Dynamic process spawning
• Network and process fault tolerance
• Support network heterogeneity
• Single library supports all networks
• Run-time instrumentation
• Many job schedulers supported

• Many OS's supported (32 and 64 bit)
• Production quality software
• High performance on all platforms
• Portable and maintainable
• Tunable by installers and end-users
• Component-based design, documented APIs
• Active, responsive mailing list
• Open source license based on the BSD license

Open MPI is developed in a true open source fashion by a consortium of research, academic, and industry partners. The Open MPI Team page has a comprehensive listing of all contributors and active members.