This website contains information about the activities of the MPI Forum, which is the standardization forum for the Message Passing Interface (MPI). You may find standard documents, information about the activities of the MPI forum, and links to comment on the MPI Document using the navigation at the top of the page.
Link to the central MPI-Forum GitHub Presence
Current Efforts
The MPI Forum is currently pursuing at least one future version of the MPI Standard:
- MPI Next: A standard update following MPI 5.0 with currently undefined features
More details can be found in the respective sections.
Updates
BoF at SC 26
The MPI Forum will host a BoF session, “One Year after MPI 5.0: Impact and What’s Next?”, at SC 26 in Chicago, IL, USA on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:15-1:15pm CST in room W181abc.
EuroMPI 2026
EuroMPI 2026 will be held October 7-9, 2026 at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria, co-located with IWOMP 2026.
- More information at https://eurompi.org/
BoF at SC 25
The MPI Forum will host a BoF session at SC 25 in St. Louis, MO, USA this November. The exact time is yet to be announced, but keep an eye on the conference program.
MPI Forum Officers
- Chair: Martin Schulz, TUM/LRZ, Germany
- Secretary: Wes Bland, Meta, USA
- Treasurer: Brian Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboraotry, USA
- Document Editor: Bill Gropp, NCSA/UIUC
Previous Efforts
- Martin Schulz, MPI 4.1
- Martin Schulz, MPI 4.0
- Martin Schulz, MPI 3.1
- Richard Graham, MPI 3.0
- Bill Gropp, MPI 2.2
- Rolf Rabenseifner, MPI 2.1
Steering Committee
- Jack Dongarra
- Al Geist
- Richard Graham
- Bill Gropp
- Andrew Lumsdaine
- Ewing Lusk
- Rolf Rabenseifner