MPI is the Message Passing Interface that programmers use to make a programme run on thousands of processors, and share data and messages among them.

Ewald Meyer, business unit manager of Odirile Storage Distribution, which distributes the QLogic product range, explains that, through its support of the Intel MPI Library, QLogic HCAs interoperate seamlessly with applications from the numerous Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who currently test with and support the Intel MPI standard.

Customers of these ISVs can now deploy those applications on top of InfiniPath HCAs to solve their most complex problems in reduced time and scale their solutions more efficiently on large clusters, he says.

The result is that InfiniBand users will benefit from the ability to use Intel's technology for job execution on Linux-based clusters, he claims. The collaboration with Intel will also allow ISVs to avoid the expense of testing and supporting yet one more variation of applications for Linux clusters, Meyer adds.

Meyer explains that the Intel MPI Library delivers a flexible, multi-fabric-enabled message-passing interface for developers and users of cluster applications. It also provides a high-performance implementation of MPI-2 standard functionality, he adds.