communications, protocol A
de facto standard for communication among the
nodes running a parallel program on a distributed memory system. MPI is a
library of
routines that can be called from
Fortran and C programs. MPI's advantage over older message passing libraries is that it is both
portable (because MPI has been implemented for almost every distributed memory
architecture) and fast (because each implementation is
optimised for the
hardware it runs on).
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(1997-06-09)