Overview of the Project

InfiniBand Architecture and iWARP are emerging as open interconnect and protocol standards for HPC clusters, data centers, and file/storage systems. This web page focuses on research and development of high performance and scalable designs for MPI-1 and MPI-2 on InfiniBand as well as other RDMA-enabled interconnects. This page also includes information related to the distribution of the popular MVAPICH and MVAPICH2 software packages, mailing lists, OSU MPI benchmarks, performance results, and publications.

Information on our research and projects along designing other high-end systems (data centers, clustered storage and file systems) and interconnects can be obtained from here.

Currently, we have the following two different MPI packages:

• MVAPICH 1.1 (MPI-1 over OpenFabrics-IB, OpenFabrics/IB-Hybrid, QLogic InfiniPath, Shared Memory, and TCP/IP)
• MVAPICH2 1.4 (MPI-2 over OpenFabrics-IB, OpenFabrics-iWARP, OpenFabrics-RDMAoE, QLogic InfiniPath, uDAPL and TCP/IP)

Please refer to the menubar for more details on the above packages, download information, OSU benchmarks, sample performance numbers, publications, current users, mailing lists and FAQs.

Mailing Lists and Additional Information

There are two mailing lists associated with this project. One is for project-related announcements and the other one is for discussion of all issues (user installation/build problems, performance problems, features, contribution of patches and modules, and general questions) related to all different interfaces (OpenFabrics-IB, OpenFabrics-iWARP, uDAPL, InfiniPath and VAPI) of MVAPICH and MVAPICH2. If you are experiencing any problems in installing and using the above packages, please refer to the FAQs. If the problem is not solved, please post a note to mvapich-discuss mailing list.