What is MVAPICH, and where is it installed on the TeraGrid?

Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.

The MVAPICH software works by connecting traditional supercomputing software with innovative networking technology that speeds data flow. MVAPICH bridges the gap between the traditional message passing interface (MPI) software that manages communication between nodes on a supercomputer and the InfiniBand technology, a networking architecture standard that was developed to support high performance computing systems, including supercomputers. For more, see the MVAPICH web site.

On the TeraGrid, MVAPICH is included in the CTSS 4 Parallel Application Support Capability Kit.

To see which TeraGrid resources support this and other CTSS kits, see Find Resources by CTSS Software & Services in the TeraGrid User Support documentation.

This document was developed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0503697 to the University of Chicago and subcontracted to Indiana University. Additional support was provided by IU through its participation in the TeraGrid, which is supported by the NSF under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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