MPICH-V is a research effort with theoretical studies, experimental evaluations and pragmatic implementations aiming to provide a MPI implementation based on MPICH, featuring multiple fault tolerant protocols for Message Passing Interface.
MPICH-V provides automatic fault tolerant MPI library (i.e. a totaly unchanged application linked with the mpich-v library is a fault tolerant application).
The features of MPICH-V make it attractive for a) large clusters, b) cluster made from collection of nodes in a LAN environment (Desktop Grid), c) Grid deployments harnessing several clusters and d) campus/industry wide desktop Grids with volatile nodes (i.e. all infrastructures featuring synchronous network or controllable area network).
