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Foil 44 Message Passing Interface (MPI)
From
Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial --
1995-1998
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by
Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
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A standard message-passing library
p4, NX, p4, Express, PARMACS are precursors
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An MPI program defines a set of processes
(usually one process per node)
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... that communicate by calling MPI functions
(point-to-point and collective)
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... and can be constructed in a modular fashion
(communicators are the key)
in Table To:
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