[Mvapich] Announcing the release of MVAPICH-Plus 4.0a

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The MVAPICH team is pleased to announce the release of MVAPICH-Plus
4.0a.

The new MVAPICH-Plus series is an advanced version of the MVAPICH MPI
library.  It is targeted to support unified MVAPICH2-GDR and
MVAPICH2-X features. It is also targeted to provide optimized support
for modern platforms (CPU, GPU, and interconnects) for HPC, Deep
Learning, Machine Learning, Big Data and Data Science applications.

The major features and enhancements available in MVAPICH-Plus 4.0a are
as follows:

    - Based on MPICH 4.3.0a1
    - Supports all features of MPI 4.1 standard
    - Support for
        * Major CPUs (x86-Intel, x86-AMD, and ARM)
        * Major Interconnects (IB, Slingshot, Omni-Path, OPX, ROCE,
          and Ethernet/iWARP)
        * Major GPUs (from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel)
    - Optimized support for pt2pt inter-node and intra-node communication
    - CMA support for intra-node pt2pt operations
    - Optimized algorithms for collectives
    - CUDA-aware MPI (pt2pt and collective) support
    - Support for NVIDIA GDRCOPY and AMD LARGEBAR GPU copy operations
    - Optimized IPC-based support for collectives on Intel GPU
        - Allreduce and reduce
    - On-the fly compression support for collectives using GPU buffers
      on NVIDIA GPUs
        - ZFP-based compression
        - Allgather, Alltoall, Allreduce, and Reduce_Scatter

For downloading MVAPICH-Plus 4.0a library and associated 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 lists.osu.edu).

Thanks,

The MVAPICH Team

PS: We are also happy to inform that the number of organizations using
MVAPICH libraries (and registered at the MVAPICH site) has crossed
3,400 worldwide (in 92 countries). The number of downloads from the
MVAPICH site has crossed 1,800,000 (1.8 million).  The MVAPICH team
would like to thank all its users and organizations!!