Category Archives: News & Events

A new feature preview release of MPICH2, 1.3rc1, is now available to download. This release marks the end of all the major features planned for this release. Early adopters are encouraged to try it out.

A new feature preview release of MPICH2, 1.3b1, is now available to download. Major features in this release include fine-grained threading and process manager support for multiple resource managers including SGE, LSF, and POE. This release is not recommended for … Continue reading →

A new feature preview release of MPICH2, 1.3a2, is now available to download. This is the second preview release in the 1.3.z series. Major features in this release include checkpoint-restart capability using BLCR. This release is not recommended for production … Continue reading →

A new stable version of MPICH2, 1.2.1p1, has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that fixes several issues on PowerPC systems, build system bugs, and the MPD process manager.

A new feature preview release of MPICH2, 1.3a1, is now available to download. This marks the start of a new major release series that includes several new features and optimizations, including a new default process manager Hydra (replacing MPD). This … Continue reading →

A new stable version of MPICH2, 1.2.1, has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release that fixes several issues with MX and Hydra, adds Valgrind support for debugging builds, support for the hwloc process binding library and others.

A release candidate for the next version of MPICH2, 1.2.1, has been released. This is primarily a bug fix release. The release candidate is meant for early trials.

A new stable version of MPICH2, 1.2, has been released. It includes MPI-2.2 support, several bug fixes, and code cleanup. We recommend all users using older releases of MPICH2 to upgrade to this version.

Members of the MPICH2 group are authors/coauthors of a total of five papers and two posters selected for EuroPVM/MPI 2009, two of which were selected as an “Outstanding Papers”. One of these two papers studies the implications of scaling MPI … Continue reading →

A patch release of MPICH2, 1.1.1p1 has been released. This release fixes several bugs present in the previous stable release, 1.1.1 . We recommend all users of MPICH2 to upgrade to this version.