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NAME
       MPI -  Introduction to the Message-Passing Interface

DESCRIPTION
       MPI stands for Message Passing Interface.  MPI is a specification (like
       C or Fortran) and there are a number of implementations.  The  rest  of
       this man(1,5,7) page describes the use of the MPICH implementation of MPI.


GETTING STARTED
       Add MPI to your path
       % set(7,n,1 builtins) path = ( $path /usr/local/mpi/bin )

       for the csh and tcsh shells, or
       % export path=$path:/usr/local/mpi/bin

       for sh , ksh , and bash shells.

       Compute pi to a given resolution on 8 processes
       % mpiexec -n 8 /usr/local/mpi/examples/cpi


       You  can compile and link(1,2) your own MPI programs with the commands mpicc
       , mpif77 , mpicxx , and mpif90 :
       % mpicc -o cpi cpi.c
       % mpif77 -o fpi fpi.f
       % mpicxx -o cxxpi cxxpi.cxx
       % mpif790 -o pi3f90 pi3f90.f90

       using the source code from /usr/local/mpi/examples .



DOCUMENTATION
       PDF documentation can  be  found  in(1,8)  directory  /usr/local/mpi/doc/  .
       These  include an installation manual ( install.pdf ) and a user's man-
       ual ( usermanual.pdf ).

       Man pages exist for every MPI subroutine and function.  The  man(1,5,7)  pages
       are also available on the Web at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/www .

       Additional      on-line      information      is      available      at
       http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi , including a hypertext version(1,3,5) of the stan-
       dard,  information  on  other  libraries  that use MPI, and pointers to
       other MPI resources.


VERSION
       MPICH2 version(1,3,5) 1.0


LICENSE
       Copyright 2002 University of  Chicago.   See  the  file(1,n)  COPYRIGHT  for
       details.   The  source  code  is freely available by anonymous ftp from
       ftp.mcs.anl.gov in(1,8) pub/mpi/mpich2-beta.tar.gz .



FILES
       /usr/local/mpi/                 MPI software directory
       /usr/local/mpi/COPYRIGHT        Copyright notice
       /usr/local/mpi/README           various notes and instructions
       /usr/local/mpi/bin/             binaries, including mpiexec and mpicc
       /usr/local/mpi/examples         elementary MPI programs
       /usr/local/mpi/doc/             documentation
       /usr/local/mpi/include/         include files
       /usr/local/mpi/lib/             library files



CONTACT
       MPI-specific  suggestions  and  bug   reports   should   be   sent   to
       mpich2-maint@mcs.anl.gov .



LOCATION
       manpage.txt



                                   3/2/2005                             MPI(1)