The MPICH project is an example of translational research in computer science before that term was well known or even coined. The project began in 1992 as an effort to develop a portable, high-performance implementation of the emerging Message-Passing Interface (MPI) Standard. It has enabled the widespread adoption of MPI as a way to write scalable parallel applications on systems of all sizes including upcoming exascale supercomputers. In this paper, we describe how the translational research process was used in MPICH, how that led to its success, the challenges encountered and lessons learned, and how the process could be applied to other similar projects.

MPICH项目是计算机科学翻译研究的一个例子，在该术语广为人知甚至被创造之前。该项目始于1992年，旨在为新兴的消息传递接口（MPI）标准开发可移植的高性能实现。它使MPI被广泛采用，作为一种在各种规模的系统（包括即将推出的百亿亿次超级计算机）上编写可伸缩并行应用程序的方式。在本文中，我们描述了MPICH中如何使用翻译研究过程，如何导致其成功，遇到的挑战和经验教训以及如何将该过程应用于其他类似项目。