Information about MPI is available from a variety of sources. Some of these, particularly WWW pages, include pointers to other resources.
The Standard itself:
As a Technical report [4]
As Postscript and HTML at www.mpi-forum.org
As a journal article in the Fall 1994 issue of the Journal of Supercomputing Applications [14]
MPI Forum discussions
The MPI Forum email discussions and both current and earlier versions of the Standard are available from www.netlib.org. MPI-2 discussions are available at www.mpi-forum.org.
Books:
Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, Second Edition, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum [10].
Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Thakur [11]
MPI---The Complete Reference: Volume 1, The MPI Core, by Snir, et al. [16].
MPI---The Complete Reference: Volume 2, The MPI-2 Extensions, by Gropp, et al. [5].
Parallel Programming with MPI, by Peter S. Pacheco. [15]
Newsgroup:
comp.parallel.mpi
Mailing lists:
mpi-comments@mpi-forum.org: The MPI Forum discussion list.
mpi-impl@mcs.anl.gov: The implementors' discussion list.
mpi-bugs@mcs.anl.gov is the address to report problems with mpich to.
Implementations available from the web:
mpich is available from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich or by anonymous ftp from ftp.mcs.anl.gov in the directory pub/mpi/mpich, file mpich.tar.gz.
LAM is available from http://www.lam-mpi.org.
Test code repository:
ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/mpi/mpi-test