MPI - A STANDARD MESSAGE-PASSING INTERFACE

MPI is a proposed standard message passing interface whose use on mass ively parallel computers and networks of workstations is becoming wide spread, The design of MPI was a collective effort involving researcher s in the United States and Europe from many organizations and institut ions, MPI includes point-to-point and collective communication routine s, as well as support for general datatypes, application topologies, a nd the construction of safe and modular parallel application libraries through the communicator abstraction, While making use of new ideas w here appropriate, the MPI standard is based largely on current practic e.