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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 39 , Issue 7 (July 1996) table of contents

Pages: 84 - 90

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Jack J. Dongarra	Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Steve W. Otto	Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton
Marc Snir	IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
David Walker	Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
D.1.3 Concurrent Programming
Subjects: Parallel programming

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.0 General
Subjects: Standards
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
Subjects: Software libraries
D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement
Subjects: Portability
D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
D.3.2 Language Classifications
Subjects: Concurrent, distributed, and parallel languages
D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
D.4.4 Communications Management
Subjects: Message sending

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages, Standardization

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A standard is described for a portable message-passing interface (MPI) for parallel computation systems ranging from massively parallel processors to networks of workstations. The paper begins by laying out the goals of MPI and what the MPI st more...

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