LAM, LAM, LAM

LAM 7.1 escaped from the developers this morning. New in LAM 7.1 is the ability to have dynamic shared objects for SSI components, an InfiniBand RPI, support for the SLURM batch scheduler, and much more. Basically, much goodness all in all. If you use LAM, you should download it right now. Onward with world domination!

Open MPI

A freak meeting of minds over dinner occured about a year ago between a bunch of independent MPI developers. The result was the decision to combine forces and produce the one MPI to bind them all. After numerous discussions, the name Open MPI was forged, and a web page was created. The web page is, of course, http://www.open-mpi.org/.