MPIF has sought to adopt the best features from existing systems, rather than
standardizing on any one. The design of MPI has been strongly influenced by:
Work at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Intel's NX/2
Express
nCUBE's Vertex
P4
PARMACS
PVM
Other important contributions have come from:
Zipcode
CHIMP
PICL
Slide 44 of SIAM Tutorial, Jack Dongarra UT/ORNL.
(Updated 01/31/95)