MPICH Documents

Manuals

• The Installation and Users manuals are available in hypertext form and by FTP. Separate manuals for each device are provided:

  Device	Format
  ch_p4	HTML	Postscript	PDF
  ch_p4mpd	HTML	Postscript	PDF
  ch_shmem	HTML	Postscript	PDF
  globus2	HTML	Postscript	PDF
  ch_nt (MPICH for Windows)	HTML	Postscript	PDF

• ROMIO User's Guide. Also see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/romio/.
• MPE Users Guide (Postscript, PDF)
• README
• License Information
• List of known bugs and patchfiles
• MPICH FAQ
• Information for users at Argonne

Man pages for routines

• MPICH User Commands
• MPI Routines and Constants
• MPE Routines

• MPICH Implementation (postscript)

Abstract Device Interface Documentation

• The Second-Generation ADI for the MPICH Implementation of MPI (DRAFT) (also available as postscript). The ADI in this document is implemented in the 1.0.13 version of MPICH.
• The Implementation of the second generation MPICH ADI (DRAFT) (also available as postscript). The information in this note suggests how the second-generation ADI can be implemented, particularly when handling multiple devices and protocols, as well as thread-saftey and heterogenity. This document is changed frequently.