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Foil 6 What is MPI?

From MPI Message Passing Interface Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
1 A standard message-passing library
  • p4, NX, PVM, Express, PARMACS are precursors
2 MPI defines a language-independent interface
  • Not an implementation
3 Bindings are defined for different languages
  • So far, C and Fortran 77, C++ and F90
  • Java Grande Forum is defining Java bindings
4 Multiple implementations
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