The design of a standard message passing interface for distributed memory concurrent computers

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10193294· OSTI ID:10193294

Walker, D W

This paper presents an overview of MPI, a proposed standard message passing interface for MIMD distributed memory concurrent computers. The design of MPI has been a collective effort involving researchers in the United States and Europe from many organizations and institutions. MPI includes point-to-point and collective communication routines, as well as support for process groups, communication contexts, and application topologies. While making use of new ideas where appropriate, the MPI standard is based largely on current practice.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 10193294
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-12512; ON: DE94002536; CNN: Contract DAAL03-91-C-0047; TRN: 93:004507
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Oct 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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