[mvapich-discuss] Deployment of MVAPICH2 Libraries on Microsoft Azure Cloud

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the deployment of
MVAPICH2-Azure 2.3.3 and MVAPICH2-X-Azure 2.3rc3.

Features and enhancements for MVAPICH2-Azure 2.3.3 and
MVAPICH2-X-Azure 2.3rc3 are listed here.

MVAPICH2-Azure-2.3.3

* Features and Enhancements
    - Based on MVAPICH2-2.3.3
    - Enhanced tuning for point-to-point and collective operations
    - Targeted for Azure HB, HB2, and HC virtual machine instances
    - Azure HPC Images for
        - CentOS 7.6, 7.7 and 8.1

MVAPICH2-X-Azure-2.3rc3

* Features and Enhancements
    - Based on MVAPICH2-X-2.3rc3
    - Support for advanced MPI features (Direct Connect,
      Cooperative Protocol) and XPMEM
    - Targeted for Azure HB & HC virtual machine instances
    - Azure HPC Images for
        - CentOS 7.6, 7.7 and 8.1

MVAPICH2-Azure-2.3.3 and MVAPICH2-X-2.3rc3 deliver excellent performance.
Sample performance numbers are available from:

http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/performance/mv2-azure-pt_to_pt/

http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/performance/mv2x-azure-pt_to_pt/

For using MVAPICH2-Azure Deployments, Support and User Guide, please
visit the following URL:

http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu

All questions, feedback, bug reports, hints for performance tuning,
patches and enhancements are welcome. Please post it to the
mvapich-discuss mailing list (mvapich-discuss at cse.ohio-state.edu).

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team

PS: We are also happy to inform that the number of organizations using
MVAPICH2 libraries (and registered at the MVAPICH site) has crossed
3,075 worldwide (in 89 countries). The number of downloads from the
MVAPICH site has crossed 751,000 (0.75 million).  The MVAPICH team
would like to thank all its users and organizations!!