2. Online Resources

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2.1 WWW Sites

Official Message Passing Interface (MPI) Homepage

MPI-Forum.Org is the official homesite of the MPI Forum and contains official Forum documents and the MPI Standard documents in a variety of formats.

Argonne MPI Homepage

The Argonne National Lab MPI Homepage has a large collection of accumulated information about MPI, including pointers to implementations and tutorials by the site maintainers and others.

Official MPICH Homepage

The Official MPICH Homepage has buttons for downloading MPICH in various forms, buglists, patchfiles, and other MPICH-related stuff.

Australian National University

The Australian National University site contains information on the implementation of MPI on the Fujitsu AP1000 multicomputer located at the Australian National University as well as various links to other MPI information.

Mississippi State University

Contains pointers to MPI resources on the Web, pointers to implementations, pointers to tutorials, pointers to libraries, and other things. Home site of the MPI FAQ.

MPI-2 Mailing List Archives

The MPI-Forum web page now contains the mail archive of the MPI-2 Forum mailing lists.

Netlib

Netlib has a fairly large repository of MPI information. It contains such items as the original MPI1 proposal and minutes from several of the MPI Forum meetings.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge maintains a well-organized resource center for MPI-related materials.

Notre Dame LAM

Notre Dame is now the home location for information about LAM, one of the public domain MPI implementations.

MPI Validation Suite

Intel's "MPI Validation Suite" is now available to the public. To download a copy, please visit the site above.

2.2 Newsgroup

An MPI-specific newsgroup, comp.parallel.mpi was created by a vote of 506 to 14 . The RFD for comp.parallel.mpi was originally posted to comp.parallel , comp.parallel.pvm , and news.announce.newgroups on April 4, 1994. The CFV was issued June 15, 1994. The voting results, RFD, and CFV can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from ftp.erc.msstate.edu as pub/mpi/newsgroup/result , pub/mpi/newsgroup/rfd and pub/mpi/newsgroup/cfv .

2.3 Implementations

Many of the MPI WWW pages have information about the various MPI implementations. The Ohio Supercomputing Center is attempting to maintain a comprehensive list of implementations at http://www.lsc.nd.edu/MPI/ . Information such as the supplier, current version, help contact, etc. can be found there.


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