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The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-2 implementation that is
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developed and maintained by a consortium of academic, research, and
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industry partners. Open MPI is therefore able to combine the experise,
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technologies, and resources from all across the High Performance
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Computing community in order to build the best MPI library available.
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Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application
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developers and computer science researchers.
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Open MPI represents the merger between three well-known MPI implementations:
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* FT-MPI from the University of Tennessee
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* LA-MPI from Los Alamos National Laboratory
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* LAM/MPI from Indiana University
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with contributions from the PACX-MPI team at the University of Stuttgart.
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These four institutions comprise the founding members of the Open MPI
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development team. Each of these MPI implementations excelled in one or more
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areas. The driving motivation behind Open MPI is to bring the best ideas
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and technologies from the individual projects and create one world-class open
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source MPI implementation that excels in all areas.
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