The emergence of the MPI message passing standard for parallel computing

Computer Standards and Interfaces

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-62

  Hempel, Rolf ^a   Walker, David W ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; De facto standard; High performance computing; High Performance Fortran (HPF); Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003213666     PISSN: 09205489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-5489(99)00004-5     Document Type: Article

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