Issues in developing a thread-safe MPI implementation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4192 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 12-21

  Gropp, William ^a   Thakur, Rajeev ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY OF DATA;

MULTITHREADED PROGRAMS; THREAD SAFETY; USER-CREATED THREADS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33750279670     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11846802_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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