HP-MPI Version 1.1 for Windows Release Note

HP-MPI V1.1 for Windows 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 MPI-2 one-sided 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 uses shared libraries. Therefore, HP-MPI must be installed on all machines in the

same directory or be accessible via shared file system.

NOTE The default directory location for HP-MPI for Windows 64-bit is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\HP-MPI

Platforms supported

HP-MPI V1.1 for Windows is supported on the following hardware running Microsoft

Windows Compute Cluster Pack, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP Professional. An

active directory domain is required to run HP-MPI.

• HP Cluster Platform 3000, and 4000

• HP ProLiant BL20p, BL25p, BL30p, BL35p, DL140, DL145, DL360, DL380, DL385,

DL460C, DL480C, and DL585

NOTE HP-MPI strives to be compiler neutral. HP-MPI V1.1 for Windows systems was

tested with the Intel Fortran 9.1, Visual Studio 2005 C, Portland PGI C, and

Fortran 6.1 compilers. Other compilers can be used as well, if the Fortran

calling convention is C by reference. HP-MPI does not support the Compaq

Visual Fortran (CVF) default calling convention.

Directory structure

All HP-MPI for Windows files are stored in the directory specified at install time (default:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\HP-MPI). The directory structure is organized

as described in Table 1.