Using MPI, third edition: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface (Scientific and Engineering Computation) - Softcover

Gropp, William; Lusk, Ewing; Skjellum, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262527391 ISBN 13: 9780262527392

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2014

Synopsis

The thoroughly updated edition of a guide to parallel programming with MPI, reflecting the latest specifications, with many detailed examples.

This book offers a thoroughly updated guide to the MPI (Message-Passing Interface) standard library for writing programs for parallel computers. Since the publication of the previous edition of Using MPI, parallel computing has become mainstream. Today, applications run on computers with millions of processors; multiple processors sharing memory and multicore processors with multiple hardware threads per core are common. The MPI-3 Forum recently brought the MPI standard up to date with respect to developments in hardware capabilities, core language evolution, the needs of applications, and experience gained over the years by vendors, implementers, and users. This third edition of Using MPI reflects these changes in both text and example code.

The book takes an informal, tutorial approach, introducing each concept through easy-to-understand examples, including actual code in C and Fortran. Topics include using MPI in simple programs, virtual topologies, MPI datatypes, parallel libraries, and a comparison of MPI with sockets. For the third edition, example code has been brought up to date; applications have been updated; and references reflect the recent attention MPI has received in the literature. A companion volume, Using Advanced MPI, covers more advanced topics, including hybrid programming and coping with large data.

About this title

About the Author

William Gropp is Director of the Parallel Computing Institute and Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Review

Using MPI (third edition) is a comprehensive treatment of the MPI 3.0 standard from a user's perspective. It provides many useful examples and a range of discussion from basic parallel computing concepts for the beginner, to solid design philosophy for current MPI users, to advice on how to use the latest MPI features. The third edition of Using MPI is an essential resource for anyone designing and implementing distributed memory parallel programs.

―Michael A. Heroux, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Scientist in Residence, St. John's University

This book does an excellent job of teaching the foundations of MPI. Its holistic approach, encompassing both MPI's functionality and applications as well as its design and implementation, makes it not only highly instructive but also fun to read. I warmly recommend it to anyone looking for an introductory text on the subject, including users, students, and teachers.

―Felix Wolf, RWTH Aachen University

This book is for anyone who is serious about using MPI in solving large-scale scientific computations. It brings together the current, up-to-date version and the MPI standard and expresses the advanced concepts through illustrations, algorithms, and example programming segments. The authors have all been involved in the evolution of MPI for the past 20 years and the book is required reading for taking the next step beyond the beginner's level.

―Jack Dongarra, Innovative Computing Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee

Edition details

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262527391
• ISBN 13: 9780262527392
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336