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The diverse message passing interfaces provided on parallel and distributed computing systems have caused difficulty in movement of application software from one system to another and have inhibited the commercial development of tools and libraries for these systems. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum has developed a de facto interface standard which was finalised in Ql of 1994. Major parallel system vendors and software developers were involved in the definition process, and the first implementations of MPI are already appearing. This article presents an overview of the MPI initiative and the standard interface, in particular those aspects which merge demonstrated research with common practice.
Work supported by the Science and Engineering Research Council NACC grant B/28667
Work supported in part by CEC ESPRIT project 6643 (PPPE)
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Clarke, L., Glendinning, I., Hempel, R. (1994). The MPI Message Passing Interface Standard. In: Decker, K.M., Rehmann, R.M. (eds) Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems. Monte Verità. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8534-8_21
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