Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: lusk@donner.mcs.anl.gov (Rusty Lusk)
Subject: new release (1.1.1) of mpich
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
Date: 13 Jul 1998 19:49:56 GMT
Message-ID: <6odod4$bva@milo.mcs.anl.gov>

     We are happy to announce the release of version 1.1.1 of MPICH, the 
high-performance, portable implementation of MPI.  This version incorporates
a number of significant new features:

1.  Most of the functionality of the parallel I/O part of the MPI-2 Standard
    is included, through the ROMIO MPI-2 implementation.

2.  The MPI-2 Standard C++ bindings for the MPI-1 functions are included.
    (Thanks to Jeff Squyres, Jeremy Siek, and Andrew Lumsdaine of Notre Dame.)

3.  There is a new device, the globus device, for secure distributed computing
    in wide area networks.  This device replaces the nexus device of previous
    releases. (Thanks to Nick Karonis of Northern Illinois University.)

4.  A new logfile display program called Jumpshot can be used in place of
    upshot and nupshot (which are still included).  (Thanks to Omer Zaki of
    Argonne and Angelo State University.)

See the Installation Guide and User's Guide in the mpich/doc directory in
the distribution for details of these features.

Also, a number of bug fixes and performance improvements have been made since
version 1.1.0.

You can get the new version on the Web at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich
or anonymously ftp it from ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi/mpich.tar.gz.

For a wide variety of systems, mpich can be built by:

   gunzip -c mpich.tar.gz | tar xovf -
   cd mpich
   configure
   make

See the README and the Installation Guide for details, options, and special
cases.  Please send any problems to mpi-bugs@mcs.anl.gov.

The MPICH team:
 Bill Gropp
 Rusty Lusk
 Debbie Swider
 Rajeev Thakur