A new preview release of MPICH, 3.3a2, is now available for download. MPICH 3.3 contains a new (non-default) device layer implementation – CH4. CH4 is designed for low software overheads to better exploit next-generation hardware. An OFI (http://libfabric.org) or UCX (http://openucx.org) library is required to build CH4. Example configure lines:
./configure --with-device=ch4:ofi --with-libfabric=<path/to/ofi/install>
./configure --with-device=ch4:ucx --with-ucx=<path/to/ucx/install>
CH4 is still in alpha stages, meaning there are known build issues and bugs, but most tests and common benchmarks will complete on 64-bit Linux systems. Since 3.3a1, there have been major stability improvements, bug fixes, and code cleanup. CH4 support for Blue Gene/Q is added in this release (via the OFI/BGQ provider), as well as Mac OS builds.
Also in this release are several bug fixes and improvements to CH3, Hydra, and common MPICH code. You can find the release on our downloads page.
