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Foil 4 What is MPI?
From
Designing and Building Parallel Programs 3: MPI Message Passing System DoD Modernization Tutorial --
1995-1998
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by
Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
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MPI defines a language-independent interface
Not an implementation
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Bindings are defined for different languages
So far, C and Fortran 77, parts of C++ and F90
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Multiple implementations
MPICH is a widely-used portable implementation
See
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/
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