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Foil 2 Abstract of MPI -- The Message Passing Interface -- Presentation

From Fox Presentation Fall 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox


This covers MPI from a user's point of view and is meant to be a supplement to other online resources from MPI Forum, David Walker's Tutorial, Ian Foster's "Designing and Building Parallel Programs", Gropp,Lusk and Skjellum "Using MPI"
An Overview is based on subset of 6 routines that cover send/receive, environment inquiry (for rank and total number of processors) initialize and finalization with simple examples
Processor Groups, Collective Communication and Computation and Derived Datatypes are also discussed



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