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 ## Funding acknowledgement
 This work includes developments made in the DEEP-SEA project. It was supported by the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the EuroHPC Programme DEEP-SEA (GA no. 955606), which received support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and Germany.
+ParaStation MPI is a production-grade MPI implemenation, however, the developments and additions made in the DEEP-SEA project come at varying levels of maturity.
 
 ## Introduction
 ParaStation MPI is an implementation of the Message-Passing Interface (MPI)