Introduction



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Introduction

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It was the intent of the creators of the MPI standard to address several issues that augment the power and usefulness of point-to-point and collective communications. These issues are mainly concerned with the the creation of portable, efficient and safe libraries and codes with MPI, and will be discussed in this chapter. This effort was driven by the need to overcome several limitations in many message passing systems. The next few sections describe these limitations.





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