Documentation

This distribution of mpich comes with complete man pages for the MPI routines, commands for compiling and linking MPI programs, and the MPE extensions. The command mpiman in mpich/bin is a good interface to the man pages.* The mpich/www directory contains HTML versions of the man pages for MPI and MPE. The mpich/doc directory contains this Installation and User's Guide. All documentation is also available on the web at www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich1/docs.html.

Information about MPI is available from a variety of sources. Some of these, particularly WWW pages, include pointers to other resources.

The Standard itself:

As a Technical report [4].

As Postscript and HTML at www.mpi-forum.org, for both MPI-1 and MPI-2.

As a journal article in the Fall 1994 issue of the Journal of Supercomputing Applications [15] for MPI-1 and as a journal article in the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications in 1998.

MPI Forum discussions

The MPI Forum email discussions and both current and earlier versions of the Standard are available from www.netlib.org. MPI-2 discussions are available at www.mpi-forum.org.

Books:

Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, Second Edition, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum [11].

Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Thakur [12].

MPI---The Complete Reference: Volume 1, The MPI Core, by Snir, et al. [17].

MPI---The Complete Reference: Volume 2, The MPI-2 Extensions, by Gropp, et al. [6].

Parallel Programming with MPI, by Peter S. Pacheco [16].

Newsgroup:

comp.parallel.mpi

Mailing lists:

[email protected]: The MPI Forum discussion list.

[email protected]: The implementors' discussion list.

[email protected] is the address to which you should report problems with mpich.

Implementations available from the web:

mpich is available from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich or by anonymous ftp from ftp.mcs.anl.gov in the directory pub/mpi/mpich, file mpich.tar.gz.

Links to other implementations are available at www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/implementations.html.

Test code repository:

ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi/mpi-test