Developer Documentation

• Getting And Building MPICH2
• Branch Management
• Coding Standards
• Student Projects
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Interfacing to MPICH2 - This section contains information on interfacing to MPICH2, either with external tools such as debuggers and process managers, or by replacing functions within the MPI implementation, such as specifying a different implementation of an MPI collective operation.
  • Debugger Message Queue Access
  • Overriding Collective Functions
• Testing
  • Nightly Tests
  • Special Tests - These tests are run manually, usually as part of gearing up for a release. Be sure to look at the date to make sure that you aren't looking at stale results. Information on running the special tests is at Testing MPICH2#Running the Special Tests.
  • Writing New Tests
  • Testing Crons
  • Code Coverage Reports
• Miscellaneous
  • Mailing lists
  • Bug Tracking
  • Recent Changes (requires ANL login)
  • Fixing Bugs in Released Code
  • Rules For Installation Targets
  • Adding New Error Messages
  • Creating a Release
  • Updating the MPICH2 Web Pages
  • Updating the MPICH2 FAQ
  • Pretty Make
  • Category:Design Documents
  • Proposed MPIEXEC Extensions such as a standard set of command-line options for environment variables and support for multi-threaded applications.
• Auto-generated pages
  • A list of non-conforming global symbols
  • Problems reported by the style checker
  • Problems reported by the error message extractor
  • List of FIXMEs