The file smpd.exe, known as SMPD Process Manager Service for MPICH2 applications, belongs to software SMPD Process Manager from Argonne National Lab. MPICH2 applications implements the Message Passing Interface (MPI) to provide an MPI implementation for important platforms that include SMPs, clusters, and massively parallel processors. It also provides a tool for MPI implementation research and for developing new and better parallel programming environments. MPICH2 is a freely available, portable implementation of MPI, which is a standard for message passing for distributed-memory applications used in parallel computing. Parallel computing involves calculations that are carried out simultaneously, which operates on the principle that large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which are then solved concurrently in parallel. The forma of parallel computing include instruction level, bit level, data, and task parallelism. Parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multicore processors.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. smpd.exe. is used by SMPD Process Manager, If you shut down smpd.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop smpd.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is SMPD Process Manager, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed smpd.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as SMPD Process Manager, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if smpd.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that smpd.exe, belongs to, in this case SMPD Process Manager