The MVAPICH Project: Evolution and Sustainability of an Open Source Production Quality MPI Library for HPC

The MVAPICH project based at the Ohio State University has produced open source, high performance and production ready MPI libraries for over a decade. It presents a good example of how academic research projects can be sustainable while producing quality software that benefits academia and industry alike. In this paper, we present details of the MVAPICH project including its development cycle, support structure, policies, use in production clusters and impact on the HPC community.