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
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