Acknowledgements

This document is the product of a number of distinct efforts in four distinct phases: one for each of MPI-1, MPI-2, MPI-3, and MPI-4. This section describes these in historical order, starting with MPI-1. Some efforts, particularly parts of MPI-2, had distinct groups of individuals associated with them, and these efforts are detailed separately.

This document represents the work of many people who have served on the MPI Forum. The meetings have been attended by dozens of people from many parts of the world. It is the hard and dedicated work of this group that has led to the MPI standard.

The technical development was carried out by subgroups, whose work was reviewed by the full committee. During the period of development of the Message-Passing Interface ( MPI), many people helped with this effort.

Those who served as primary coordinators in MPI-1.0 and MPI-1.1 are:

• Jack Dongarra, David Walker, Conveners and Meeting Chairs
• Ewing Lusk, Bob Knighten, Minutes
• Marc Snir, William Gropp, Ewing Lusk, Point-to-Point Communication
• Al Geist, Marc Snir, Steve Otto, Collective Communication
• Steve Otto, Editor
• Rolf Hempel, Process Topologies
• Ewing Lusk, Language Binding
• William Gropp, Environmental Management
• James Cownie, Profiling
• Tony Skjellum, Lyndon Clarke, Marc Snir, Richard Littlefield, Mark Sears, Groups, Contexts, and Communicators
• Steven Huss-Lederman, Initial Implementation Subset

The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory made the draft available by anonymous FTP mail servers and were instrumental in distributing the document.

The work on the MPI-1 standard was supported in part by ARPA and NSF under grant ASC-9310330, the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Cooperative Agreement No. CCR-8809615, and by the Commission of the European Community through Esprit project P6643 (PPPE).