A Multithreaded Message Passing Interface (MPI) Architecture: Performance and Program Issues

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 449-466

  Protopopov, Boris V ^a   Skjellum, Anthony ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MPI; thread safety; multithreaded design; concurrency in message passing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346941337     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1674     Document Type: Article

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