Explicit Parallel Programming in C++ based on the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) (1996)
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@MISC{Skjellum96explicitparallel,
author = {Anthony Skjellum and Ziyang Lu and Purushotham V. Bangalore and Nathan Doss},
title = {Explicit Parallel Programming in C++ based on the Message-Passing Interface (MPI)},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Introduction Explicit parallel programming using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), a de facto standard created by the MPI Forum [15], is quickly becoming the strategy of choice for performance-portable parallel application programming on multicomputers and networks of workstations, so it is inevitably of interest to C++ programmers who use such systems. MPI programming is currently undertaken in C and/or Fortran-77, via the language bindings defined by the MPI Forum [15]. While the committee deferred the job of defining a C++ binding for MPI to MPI-2 [16], it is already possible to develop parallel programs in C++ using MPI, with the added help of one of several support libraries [2, 6, 13]. These systems all strive to enable immediate C++ programming based on MPI. The first such enabling system, MPI++, is the focus of this chapter. MPI++ was an early effort on our part to let us leverage MPI while programming in C++. Here this system is, to a large extent, our vehicle to i
