The Goals of MPI



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The Goals of MPI

The goal of the Message Passing Interface, simply stated, is to develop a widely used standard for writing message-passing programs. As such the interface should establish a practical, portable, efficient, and flexible standard for message passing.

A list of the goals of MPI appears below.



Jack Dongarra
Fri Sep 1 06:16:55 EDT 1995