MPICH is a high performance and widely portable implementation of the Message
Passing Interface (MPI) standard.

The goals of MPICH are:

* to provide an MPI implementation that efficiently supports different
computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters
(desktop systems, shared-memory systems, multicore architectures),
high-speed networks and proprietary high-end computing systems
(Blue Gene, Cray)
* to enable cutting-edge research in MPI through an easy-to-extend modular
framework for other derived implementations