This publication documents the Cray Message Passing Toolkit and Message Passing Toolkit for IRIX (MPT) 1.3 implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) supported on the following platforms:
Cray PVP systems running UNICOS release 10.0 or later. The MPT 1.3 release requires a bugfix package to be installed on UNICOS systems running release 10.0 or later. The bugfix package, MPT12_OS_FIXES, is available through the getfix utility. It is also available from the anonymous FTP site ftp.cray.com in directory /pub/mpt/fixes/MPT12_OS_FIXES.
CRAY T3E systems running UNICOS/mk release 1.5 or later
Silicon Graphics MIPS based systems running IRIX release 6.2 or later
IRIX 6.2 systems running MPI require the kernel rollup patch 1650 or later.
IRIX 6.3 systems running MPI require the kernel rollup patch 2328 or later.
IRIX systems running MPI applications must also be running Array Services software version 3.0 or later. MPI consists of a library, a profiling library, and commands that support MPI. The MPT 1.3 release is a software package that supports parallel programming across a network of computer systems through a technique known as message passing.
The following documents contain additional information that might be helpful:
Message Passing Toolkit: PVM Programmer's Manual
Application Programmer's Library Reference Manual
Installing Programming Environment Products
All of these are Cray publications and can be ordered from the Minnesota Distribution Center. For ordering information, see “Obtaining Publications.”
Material about MPI is available from a variety of other sources. Some of these, particularly World Wide Web pages, include pointers to other resources. Following is a grouped list of these sources:
The MPI standard:
As a technical report: University of Tennessee report (reference [24] from Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum)
As online PostScript or hypertext on the World Wide Web:
http://www.mpi-forum.org/ |
As a journal article in the fall issue of the International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, volume 8, number 3/4, 1994
As text through the IRIS InSight library (for customers with access to this tool)
Books:
Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum, publication TPD-0011
Newsgroup:
comp.parallel.mpi
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The following conventions are used throughout this document:
In this manual, references to Cray PVP systems include the following machines:
CRAY C90 series
CRAY C90D series
CRAY EL series (including CRAY Y-MP EL systems)
CRAY J90 series
CRAY Y-MP E series
CRAY Y-MP M90 series
CRAY T90 series
Silicon Graphics systems include all MIPS based systems running IRIX 6.2 or later.
The following operating system terms are used throughout this document.
| Term | Definition | |
| UNICOS | Operating system for all configurations of Cray PVP systems | |
| UNICOS/mk | Operating system for all configurations of CRAY T3E systems | |
| UNICOS MAX | Operating system for all configurations of CRAY T3D systems | |
| IRIX | Operating system for all configurations of MIPS based systems |
The default shell in the UNICOS and UNICOS/mk operating systems, referred to in Cray Research documentation as the standard shell, is a version of the Korn shell that conforms to the following standards:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Standard 1003.2-1992
X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 4 (XPG4)
The UNICOS and UNICOS/mk operating systems also support the optional use of the C shell.
Cray UNICOS version 10.0 is an X/Open Base 95 branded product.
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