An Introduction to the MPI Standard

Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Steve W. Otto
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
Marc Snir
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
David Walker
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tue Jan 17 21:48:20 EST 1995

• Contents
• Introduction
• Overview
• Goals
• What MPI Does and Does Not Specify
• Point to Point Communication
• User-defined Datatypes
• Collective Communications
• Groups, Contexts, and Communicators
• Conclusions
• References
• Sidebar: Implementations of MPI
• Sidebar: More Information on MPI, Assistance
• Sidebar: Library Communicator and Caching
• About this document ...