Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gregt@ssd.intel.com (Greg Tensa)
Subject: MPI V1.1 Validation Suite now available
Organization: Enterprise Server Group (ESG), Intel
Date: 19 Oct 1996 00:15:16 GMT
Message-ID: <5496ik$b1j@news.co.intel.com>

Intel Corporation entered into a Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement with DARPA and Rome Labs to pursue the development of a
portable MPI validation suite for both C and Fortran that could
verify the compliance of any MPI implementation to the MPI V1.1
Standard.  The suite is intended to provide a systematic test suite 
that could encourage higher quality MPI implementations, better 
portability, and hence a wider acceptance of MPI.

This Validation Suite is now available to the public, subject to
a royalty free copyright license from Intel and Intel's disclaimer of all
warranty and liability shown below.  The suite consists of a User's
Guide and the suite itself, which may be downloaded from the WWW at
http://www.ssd.intel.com/mpi.html .

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MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE TEST CASE SUITE

Copyright - 1996 Intel Corporation

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