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MPI was designed by the Kitchen Sink approach and has 129 functions and each has many arguments
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This completeness is strength and weakness!
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Hard to implement efficiently and hard to learn all its details
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It is not a complete operating environment and does not have ability to create and spawn processes etc.
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PVM is the previous dominant approach
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It is very simple with much less functionality than MPI
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However it runs on essentially all machines including heterogeneous workstation clusters
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Further it is a complete albeit simple operating environment
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However it seems clear that MPI has been adopted as the standard messaging system by parallel computer vendors
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