To use MPI with Windows, you will need to install the free download of Microsoft MPI. Go to the
installation page and
download MSMpiSetup.exe. Once downloaded, run the executable and follow the instructions.
Next, add the path C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\bin to the PATH environment variable. You can do this
by typing the command:
PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Microsoft MPI\bin
If you want to set the PATH permanently, follow these instructions.
Check that MPI is installed correctly by entering the command mpiexec -help and verifying that the output is as expected.
MPI for Python provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for the Python programming language, allowing any Python program to exploit multiple processors.
This package is constructed on top of the MPI-1/2/3 specifications and provides an object oriented interface which resembles the MPI-2 C++ bindings. It supports point-to-point (sends, receives) and collective (broadcasts, scatters, gathers) communications of any picklable Python object, as well as optimized communications of Python object exposing the single-segment buffer interface (NumPy arrays, builtin bytes/string/array objects).
To install mpi4py, enter the command:
conda install mpi4py
On Mac OS X and Linux, this will install both MPI for Python and Open MPI. On Windows, it will only install MPI for Python.