Learning from the Success of MPI

  • Authors:
  • William Gropp

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HiPC '01 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on High Performance Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) has been extremely successful as a portable way to program high-performance parallel computers. This success has occurred in spite of the view of many that message passing is difficult and that other approaches, including automatic parallelization and directive-based parallelism, are easier to use. This paper argues that MPI has succeeded because it addresses all of the important issues in providing a parallel programming model.