Message Passing Interface
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a computer communications protocol. It is 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, C 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 optimized for the hardware it runs on).
The most common implementation in use is MPICH. Also available is LAM-MPI.
See also
- OpenMP
- Unified Parallel C
- Occam programming language
- Linda (coordination language)
- Parallel Virtual Machine
- Calculus of Communicating Systems
- Calculus of Broadcasting Systems
References
This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.
External links
- MPI DMOZ category
- MPICH
- LAM/MPI
- SCore MPI
- Scali MPI
- MVAPICH: MPI over InfiniBand
- Parawiki page for MPI
- Global Arrays
Categories: Parallel computing