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We are pleased to announce that we have just released MPICH 4.1a1. It is available
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at <a href="https://www.mpich.org/downloads/" id="LPlnkOWALinkPreview">https://www.mpich.org/downloads/</a>.</div>
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This release is the first alpha release for 4.1 release series. Major features include
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PMI refactor, MPIX stream experimental API, build and testing enhancements, and</div>
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many fixes and improvements. In addition to the usual mpich and hydra tarballs,</div>
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starting with this release, we also release libpmi and mpich-testsuite tarballs for use</div>
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cases outside MPICH.</div>
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The MPIX stream prototypes are experimental ideas to address explicit mapping of</div>
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