HP-MPI Version 2.2 for HP-UX Release Note

HP-MPI V2.2 for HP-UX Release Note

What’s in This Version

HP-MPI is a high-performance implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard.

HP-MPI complies fully with the MPI-1.2 standard and provides full MPI-2 functionality.

HP-MPI provides an application programming interface and software libraries to support

parallel, message-passing applications that are efficient, portable, and flexible.

HP-MPI is available as both archive and shared libraries. Use of shared libraries is

recommended. In order to use shared libraries, HP-MPI must be installed on all machines in

the same directory or accessible via shared file system.

NOTE The directory location for HP-MPI for HP-UX is /opt/mpi (which is a symbolic

soft-link that points explicitly to /opt/hpmpi.

Platforms Supported

HP-MPI 2.2 is supported on the following systems:

* Ethernet includes 10baseT, 100baseT, GigE, and 10GbE.

NOTE Support for HyperFabric2 has been discontinued as of this release. However,

HyperFabric2 functionality has not been removed. HyperFabric2 support for

previous HP-MPI releases is still available.

InfiniBand Platforms Supported

HP-MPI 2.2 has tested InfiniBand support on the following platforms:

Table 1 Systems Supported

Platform Interconnects

PA-RISC Ethernet*

Itanium® 2

InfiniBand

Ethernet*