
• Proprietary communication layer developed by Myricom for
their Myrinet adapters
– Third generation communication layer (after FM and GM)
– Supports Myrinet-2000 and the newer Myri-10G adapters
• Low-level “MPI-like” messaging layer
– Almost one-to-one match with MPI semantics (including connection-
less model, implicit memory registration and tag matching)
– Later versions added some more advanced communication methods
such as RDMA to support other programming models such as ARMCI
(low-level runtime for the Global Arrays PGAS library)
• Open-MX
– New open-source implementation of the MX interface for non-
Myrinet adapters from INRIA, France
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Myrinet Express (MX)
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