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Foil 117 Message Passing Interface (MPI)

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
In principle, a sequential algorithm is portable to any architecture supporting the sequential paradigm.
However, programmers require more than this: they want their realisation of the algorithm in the form of a particular program to be portable - source-code portability.
The same is true for message-passing programs and forms the motivation behind MPI.
URL http://www.mcs.anl.gov/MPI

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