Project Summary
The Open MPI Project is an open source Message Passing Interface implementation that is developed and maintained by a consortium of academic, research, and industry partners. Open MPI is therefore able to combine the expertise, technologies, and resources from all across the High Performance Computing community in order to build the best MPI library available. Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 134 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
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Project Security
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30 Day SummaryAug 29 2026 — Sep 28 2026
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12 Month SummarySep 28 2025 — Sep 28 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for Open MPI )
Repository URL: https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi
Version: main-202609260241-fc69f0f
- 2026-09-28
- Last Analyzed
- 744,354
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.8
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 5,868
- Total defects
- 406
- Outstanding
- 5,422
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
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| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 15 |