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brew install pmix v5.0.10_1 BSD-3-Clause

C library implementing the Process Management Interface Exascale (PMIx) standard for HPC process coordination.

Why you might care

Required build/runtime dependency for HPC job schedulers and parallel computing frameworks (SLURM, Open MPI) that need standardized process management in exascale environments. Provides a unified interface for communication between application processes and resource managers across distributed systems.

Categories

library hpc networking

Alternatives

Open MPI SLURM Cray PMI
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30-day installs · #880
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90-day · #906
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365-day · #451

Runtime dependencies

hwloc libevent

Links

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