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diff --git a/system/mpich/README b/system/mpich/README index b04a0a9c25..12abd1860a 100644 --- a/system/mpich/README +++ b/system/mpich/README @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ MPICH is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard (MPI-1, MPI-2 and MPI-3). -The goals of MPICH are: to provide an MPI implementation that -efficiently supports different computation and communication -platforms including commodity clusters, high-speed networks and -proprietary high-end computing systems, and to enable cutting-edge -research in MPI through an easy-to-extend modular framework for other -derived implementations. +The goals of MPICH are: +(1) to provide an MPI implementation that efficiently supports different + computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters + (desktop systems, shared-memory systems, multicore architectures), + high-speed networks (10 Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics) + and proprietary high-end computing systems (Blue Gene, Cray) and +(2) to enable cutting-edge research in MPI through an easy-to-extend + modular framework for other derived implementations. |