Message Passing Interface


Message Passing Interface

(communications, protocol)A de facto standard forcommunication among the nodes running a parallel programon a distributed memory system. MPI is a library ofroutines that can be called from Fortran and{ C} programs.MPI's advantage over older message passing libraries is thatit is both portable (because MPI has been implemented foralmost every distributed memory architecture) and fast(because each implementation is optimised for the hardwareit runs on).