MPI for Python

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1108-1115

  Dalcín, Lisandro ^a   Paz, Rodrigo ^a   Storti, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL LITORAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

High level languages; Message passing; MPI; Parallel Python

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STANDARDS;

MEMORY MANAGEMENT; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); MPI; PARALLEL PYTHON;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

EID: 23744461133     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.03.010     Document Type: Article

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