Synopsis:
A tutorial on how to use Message-Passing Interface (MPI), the standard for communication subroutine libraries, to write parallel programs, particularly for large-scale applications. Covers background and basic concepts, MPI in C, using communicators, the Poisson problem, scalability, message passing, parallel libraries, and parallel I/O. Other topics include portability among MPP systems, use of MPI on workstation networks, and converting existing codes to MPI. Appendices list MPE multiprocessing environment functions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
About the Author:
William Gropp is Computer Scientist, and Ewing Lusk is Senior Computer Scientist, both in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Anthony Skjellum is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Mississippi State University.
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