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MPI on Theta

What is MPI?

MPI is a library specification for message-passing, proposed as a standard by a broadly-based committee of vendors, implementors, and users.

  • The MPI standard is available.
  • MPI was designed for high performance on both massively parallel machines and on workstation clusters.
  • MPI is widely available, with both free available and vendor-supplied implementations.
  • Test Suites for MPI implementations are available.
  • MPICH is a high performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard.
  • Documentation about MPICH

MPI on Theta

  • The default MPI on Theta is Cray MPI which is a proprietary implementation from Cray based on the MPICH distribution from Argonne
  • Supports Fortran, C, C++
  • Integrated within Cray Programming Environment
  • IO, collectives, point-to-point and one-sided operations are optimized for the Cray XC architecture
  • Highly tunable through environment variables
  • Integrated within the Cray programming environment

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