Introduction to MPI

Slides

• MPI in 9 moderately easy commands
• What is MPI?
• How did MPI come about?
• What is the smallest MPI program
• Actually many programs
• How do I know where I am?
• Communication: Sending
• Communication: Receiving
• High-level Communications
• Gather
• Reduce
• A Simple Example
• Conclusions

Bibliography

• An introductory text:
  Using MPI: portable parallel programming with the message-passing interface, W Gropp, E Lusk and A Skjellum, MIT Press 1994,
  ISBN 0-262-57104-8

• The standard reference:
  MPI: The Complete Reference, M Snir, S W Otto, S Huss-Lederman, D W Walker and J Dongarra, MIT Press 1996,
  ISBN 0-262-69184-1
  this book can also be found on-line:
  http://www.netlib.org/utk/papers/mpi-book/mpi-book.html

• On-line copies of the MPI 1.1 standard can be found at:
  http://www.netlib.org/mpi/

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