pmix ☆
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Description:
Process Management Interface for HPC environments
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 5.0.9@0  |  Tracked Since: Oct 15, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: System utilities
Tags: hpc mpi parallel-computing process-management library
Install: brew install pmix
About:
PMIX provides a standardized, scalable interface for process management and resource discovery in High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. It enables MPI implementations and other parallel applications to efficiently launch, manage, and coordinate processes across distributed compute nodes. This library is essential for achieving high performance and interoperability between different HPC stacks.
Key Features:
  • Standardized process management API for HPC
  • Dynamic resource discovery and allocation
  • Support for scalable, large-scale parallel job launch
  • Interoperability layer for MPI implementations
Use Cases:
  • Developing or deploying MPI applications on supercomputers
  • Building custom HPC resource managers and schedulers
  • Enabling dynamic resource allocation in parallel workflows
Alternatives:
  • OpenMPI – OpenMPI includes its own process management mechanisms, but PMIX provides a standard interface that allows different MPI implementations to work with various resource managers.
  • SLURM – SLURM is a job scheduler/resource manager, while PMIX is a library used by applications to interface with schedulers like SLURM.
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