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Foil 77 Advantages and Disadvantages of Fortran (C) Plus Message Passing

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Advantages
  • Portable to MIMD distributed and shared memory machines - should scale to future machines with some difficulties (overlapping communication with itself and calculation)
  • Available now
  • MPI is an Industry Standard
    • PVM and Vendor Solutions available now as well as
    • older systems such as Express PICL and
    • Linda with related but different programming model
  • "All Problems" can be written in it
2 Disadvantages
  • Can be "hard-work" for user inserting communication calls
  • Optimizations not portable
  • Only MIMD
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