File Manifest

This section briefly describes the files and directories at the top level of the mpich source tree.

{ COPYRIGHT}

Copyright statement. This code is free but not public domain. It is copyrighted by the University of Chicago and Mississippi State University.

{ Makefile.in}

Template for the Makefile, which will be produced when you run configure.

{ MPI-2-C++}

The C++ system from Notre Dame. It includes the C++ bindings for the MPI-1 functions.

{ README}

Basic information and instructions for configuring.

{ aclocal.m4}

Used for building configure from configure.in; not needed for most installations. The file aclocal_tcl.m4 is included by aclocal.m4.

{ ccbugs}

Directory for programs that test the C compiler during configuration, to make sure that it will be able to compile the system.

{ configure}

The script that you run to create Makefiles throughout the system.

{ configure.in}

Input to autoconf that produces configure.

{ doc}

Assorted tools for producing documentation, together with this manual.

{ examples}

Directory containing further directories of example MPI programs. Of particular note are basic, with a few small examples to try first, test, with a test suite for exercising mpich, and perftest, containing benchmarking code.

{ include}

The include files, both user and system.

{ bin}

Contains the programs and executable scripts, such as mpicc and mpirun, used to build and run MPI programs.

{ man}

Man pages for MPI, MPE, and internal routines.

{ mpe}

The source code for the MPE extensions for logging and X graphics. The contrib directory contains examples. Best are the mandel and mastermind subdirectories. The profiling subdirectory contains the profiling subsystem, including a system for automatically generating the ``wrappers'' for the MPI profiling interface. MPE also includes the performance visualization programs, such as jumpshot (see Section Jumpshot ).

{ mpid}

The source code for the various ``devices'' that customize mpich for a particular machine, operating system, and environment.

{ romio}

The ROMIO parallel I/O system, which includes an implementation of most of the MPI-2 parallel I/O standard.

{ src}

The source code for the portable part of mpich. There are subdirectories for the various parts of the MPI specification.

{ util}

Utility programs and files.

{ www}

HTML versions of the man pages.