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The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-2 implementation that is developed
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and maintained by a consortium of academic, research, and industry partners.
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Open MPI is therefore able to combine the expertise, technologies, and
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resources from all across the High Performance Computing community in order to
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build the best MPI library available. Open MPI offers advantages for system and
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software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.
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Features implemented or in short-term development for Open MPI include:
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- Full MPI-2 standards conformance
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- Thread safety and concurrency
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- Dynamic process spawning
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- Network and process fault tolerance
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- Support network heterogeneity
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- Single library supports all networks
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- Run-time instrumentation
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- Many job schedulers supported
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- Many OS's supported (32 and 64 bit)
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- Production quality software
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- High performance on all platforms
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- Portable and maintainable
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- Tunable by installers and end-users
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- Component-based design, documented APIs
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- Active, responsive mailing list
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- Open source license based on the BSD license
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