message passing interface

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Message Passing Interface
MPI

   <communications, protocol> A {de facto standard} for
   communication among the {nodes} running a {parallel program}
   on a {distributed memory system}.  MPI is a {library} of
   {routines} that can be called from {Fortran} and{ C} programs.
   MPI's advantage over older message passing libraries is that
   it is both {portable} (because MPI has been implemented for
   almost every distributed memory {architecture}) and fast
   (because each implementation is {optimised} for the {hardware}
   it runs on).

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   (1997-06-09)