Using MPI Portable Parallel Programming with the Message Passing Interface

• Main Authors: Gropp, William, Lusk, Ewing, Skjellum, Anthony
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 1999
• Edition: 2
• Series: Scientific and Engineering Computation
• Subjects: Computer interfaces; Computing and Processing; Parallel computers; Parallel programming (Computer science); Programming
• ISBN: 0262571323; 9780262571326; 026257134X; 9780262571340
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7056.001.0001

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features.Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book. It contains greater discussion of datatype extents, the most frequently misunderstood feature of MPI-1, as well as material on the new extensions to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations. Using MPI-2 covers the new extensions to basic MPI. These include parallel I/O, remote memory access operations, and dynamic process management. The volume also includes material on tuning MPI applications for high performance on modern MPI implementations.