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MPI Standards

• The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard (Argonne National Laboratory)
• MPICH2 implementation 

MPI developer tools and resources

• HPC Debugger Add-on for MPI and Cluster-SOA (tool pack) 
• How to use the MPI Cluster Debugger (documentation)
•  Windows HPC Server MPI (forum)
•  Message Passing Interface Forum (forum)
• Detecting MPI Usage Errors with Marmot (document describing their Visual Studio add-in)

Tutorials and code samples 

• Examples of linking in MSMPI library 
• MPI Tutorial (high-level material, examples cross-linked to MPI spec page - by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Classic HPC Developer Using Visual C++ Tutorial (detailed tutorial using Visual Studio to develop and MPI application, and includes debugging, running, and profiling the application on Windows HPC server) 
• Tutorial on MPI: The Message-Passing Interface (by William Gropp, Agronne National Laboratory)
• MPI Excercises (MPI patterns, tutorial and sample code by Argonne National Laboratory)
• MPI C++ examples (by J. Burkardt, dept. of Scientific Computing, Florida State University)
• MPI C examples (by J. Burkardt, Florida State University)
• MPI.NET Tutorial
• HPC Development using F# (using MPI.NET)
• Pure MPI.Net (includes examples)

 Migrating application

• UNIX Custom Application Migration Guide 
• Unix to Windows Porting Dictionary for HPC (documentation)
• Migrating Your HPC Applications to the Windows Platform (Level 300) (webcast)
• Migrating HPC Applications from UNIX to Windows (white paper)

Compilers

• Microsoft C++ compiler
• Intel C++ compiler
• PGI compiler
• MinGW (open source cross-complier)