Message Passing Interface

communications, protocol A de facto standard for

communication among the nodes running a parallel program

on a distributed memory system. MPI is a library of

routines that can be called from Fortran and C programs.

MPI's advantage over older message passing libraries is that

it is both portable (because MPI has been implemented for

almost every distributed memory architecture) and fast

(because each implementation is optimised for the hardware

it runs on).

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(1997-06-09)