open-mpi ☆
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Description:
High performance message passing library
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  @OpenMPI  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: mpi hpc parallel-computing message-passing scientific-computing
Install: brew install open-mpi
About:
OpenMPI is an open-source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. It provides a high-performance, portable interface for parallel computing across distributed memory systems. The library is designed to combine the advantages of different MPI implementations to achieve high performance on many interconnects.
Key Features:
  • Full MPI-4.0 standard compliance
  • Support for high-speed interconnects like InfiniBand
  • Dynamic process management and fault tolerance
  • Extensible component architecture (MCA) for tuning
Use Cases:
  • Scientific and high-performance computing (HPC) applications
  • Large-scale parallel data processing and simulations
  • Distributed memory cluster computing
Alternatives:
  • MPICH – Another major MPI implementation; often used as a reference implementation and is highly portable
  • Intel MPI – Commercial implementation optimized for Intel hardware, often used for compatibility with Intel compilers
Version History
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