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Knowledge check - Select the right MPI library

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The R&D team is preparing to start building and running some of its HPC applications on Azure. First, the team needs to determine what MPI libraries will work on Azure, and what's the best one to use.

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1.

Which MPI libraries will work on the HB120_v2, HB60, and HC44 VMs?

Only Intel MPI, because Azure only supports the DAPL InfiniBand API

Mellanox tuned HPCX MPI library

All popular MPI libraries

2.

Which MPI library is recommended on HB120, HB60, and HC44?

Intel MPI 2019 update5+

HPCX MPI library

Any MPI library on the CentOS-HPC 7.8+ Azure Marketplace image, because they all have the same performance

3.

Which MPI library is ABI compatible with mpich library?

Intel MPI

HPCX MPI library

All MPI libraries are ABI compatible

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