Those who served as primary coordinators in MPI-1.2 and MPI-2.0 are:
| Greg Astfalk | Robert Babb | Ed Benson | Rajesh Bordawekar | |
| Pete Bradley | Peter Brennan | Ron Brightwell | Maciej Brodowicz | |
| Eric Brunner | Greg Burns | Margaret Cahir | Pang Chen | |
| Ying Chen | Albert Cheng | Yong Cho | Joel Clark | |
| Lyndon Clarke | Laurie Costello | Dennis Cottel | Jim Cownie | |
| Zhenqian Cui | Suresh Damodaran-Kamal | Raja Daoud | ||
| Judith Devaney | David DiNucci | Doug Doefler | Jack Dongarra | |
| Terry Dontje | Nathan Doss | Anne Elster | Mark Fallon | |
| Karl Feind | Sam Fineberg | Craig Fischberg | Stephen Fleischman | |
| Ian Foster | Hubertus Franke | Richard Frost | Al Geist | |
| Robert George | David Greenberg | John Hagedorn | Kei Harada | |
| Leslie Hart | Shane Hebert | Rolf Hempel | Tom Henderson | |
| Alex Ho | Hans-Christian Hoppe | Joefon Jann | Terry Jones | |
| Karl Kesselman | Koichi Konishi | Susan Kraus | Steve Kubica | |
| Steve Landherr | Mario Lauria | Mark Law | Juan Leon | |
| Lloyd Lewins |
Ziyang Lu | Bob Madahar | Peter Madams | |
| John May | Oliver McBryan | Brian McCandless | Tyce McLarty | |
| Thom McMahon | Harish Nag | Nick Nevin | Jarek Nieplocha | |
| Ron Oldfield | Peter Ossadnik | Steve Otto | Peter Pacheco | |
| Yoonho Park | Perry Partow | Pratap Pattnaik | Elsie Pierce | |
| Paul Pierce | Heidi Poxon | Jean-Pierre Prost | Boris Protopopov | |
| James Pruyve | Rolf Rabenseifner | Joe Rieken | Peter Rigsbee | |
| Tom Robey | Anna Rounbehler | Nobutoshi Sagawa | Arindam Saha | |
| Eric Salo | Darren Sanders | Eric Sharakan | Andrew Sherman | |
| Fred Shirley | Lance Shuler | A. Gordon Smith | Ian Stockdale | |
| David Taylor | Stephen Taylor | Greg Tensa | Rajeev Thakur | |
| Marydell Tholburn | Dick Treumann | Simon Tsang | Manuel Ujaldon | |
| David Walker | Jerrell Watts | Klaus Wolf | Parkson Wong | |
| Dave Wright | ||||
The MPI Forum also acknowledges and appreciates the valuable input from people via e-mail and in person.
The following institutions supported the MPI-2 effort through time and travel support for the people listed above.
MPI-2 operated on a very tight budget (in reality, it had no budget when the first meeting was announced). Many institutions helped the MPI-2 effort by supporting the efforts and travel of the members of the MPI Forum. Direct support was given by NSF and DARPA under NSF contract CDA-9115428 for travel by U.S. academic participants and Esprit under project HPC Standards (21111) for European participants.