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In a similar way to its sister initiative HPFF, the Message-Passing Interface Forum (MPIF) has established a de-facto standard for parallel computing, in this case using the message-passing paradigm. MPI builds upon experience gained with portability interfaces such as PARMACS or PVM, and tries to combine the strongest features of all those existing packages. With MPI now available on any parallel platform, including several versions in the public domain, other interfaces have to re-define their role.
Following an overview of the established standard, MPI-1, we give an introduction to the ongoing MPI-2 initiative. Finally, we compare MPI with PVM, and discuss where MPI learned from the successes and weak points of PVM.
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Hempel, R. (1996). The status of the MPI Message-Passing standard and its relation to PVM. In: Bode, A., Dongarra, J., Ludwig, T., Sunderam, V. (eds) Parallel Virtual Machine — EuroPVM '96. EuroPVM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540617795_3
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