Intel® MPI Library

New Features

Enhanced Performance

• Optimised shared memory path for multicore platforms allows more communication throughput and lower latencies
• Native InfiniBand interface (OFED verbs) support for lower latencies
• Multi-rail capability for higher bandwidth and increased interprocess communication
• Tag Matching Interface (TMI) support for higher performance on Qlogic PSM and Myricom MX interconnects

Improved usability

• Updated MPI tuner to optimise Intel MPI library options for faster applications
• MPI 2.1 standard conformance for compatibility
• Backward compatibility with Intel MPI 3.x based applications to re-use existing implementations
• Experimental fault tolerance support for more robust cluster applications
• Experimental scalable process startup to shorten the startup phase

And more

• Greater scalability with connectionless DAPL UD support
• Application support in a wider range of Intel Cluster Ready environments

Features

Performance

• Get high-performance interconnects, including InfiniBand, Myrinet, as well as TCP, shared memory, and others
• Efficiently work through the Direct Access Programming Library (DAPL), making it easy for you to test and run applications on a variety of network fabrics
• Get users up and running faster with the ability to install under root or through an ordinary user ID
• Use the provided mpivars.sh and mpivars.csh shell scripts for easy environment setup
• Reduce hand-coding work by using the mpirun script, which automates multiprocessing daemon (MPD) startup and cleanup
• Take advantage of flexible system-, user-, and session-specific configuration files
• Give the end user a reliable runtime with transparent support for fallback Internet Protocol (IP) interfaces
• Increase performance with the ability to use device-specific and collective-protocol thresholds
• Boost performance with memory registration cache
• Get more accurate measurements with platform-specific finegrain timers

Compatibility

• Based on Argonne National Laboratory’s MPICH-2 implementation
• Simplified Integration with leading Linux job schedulers
• MPI-2 standard compliance and portability
• Support for ROMIO (a high-performance, portable MPI-IO implementation)
• Support for leading Linux Parallel Debuggers
• Support for GNU compilers (version 3.3 or higher)

Licensing

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