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Foil 76 Characteristics of Fortran (C) Plus Message Passing Programming Model

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Natural MIMD model of programming
Used in vast majority of current successful MIMD programmingEach node has program which controls and calculates its data (owner-computes "rule")
  • Do i run over local data
  • CALL READ (for non-local data)
  • CALCULATE ALL i's DATA
In simplest form one program per node of computer

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