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Goals of the MPI Forum

• Timely completion of a standard.

• Design a portable, application programming interface, usable by programmers.

• Allow highly-efficient communications, on many platforms.

• Allow implementations for heterogeneous systems.

• Allow convenient ANSI C and Fortran 77 bindings of the interface.

• Define an interface not too different from current practice.

• Provide a reliable communications interface. The programmer need not cope with failures.

• The semantics of the interface must be language-independent.

• Allow implementations providing multiple threads of execution within each process.