MPI

• hundreds of different primitives(synchronous, asynchronous, buffered, etc.)

• 1.0 ? SPMD, no esplicit process control, no “one side” communications, should be thread safe

• 2.0 ? process control, one-side communications

• both ?

  • optimized for parallel machines
  • poor cluster support (Ethernet and the alike)

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