Abstract
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.
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