"�the detailed discussion of many complex and confusing issues makes the book an important information
source for programmers developing large applications using MPI."
--L.M. Liebrock, ACM Computing Reviews
"�the detailed discussion of many complex and confusing issues makes the book an important information source
for programmers developing large applications using MPI."
-- L.M. Liebrock, ACM Computing Reviews
Submitted By Publisher, January, 2003
Summary
A hands-on introduction to parallel programming based on the Message-Passing Interface (MPI) standard, the de-facto
industry standard adopted by major vendors of commercial parallel systems. This textbook/tutorial, based on the
C language, contains many fully-developed examples and exercises. The complete source code for the examples is
available in both C and Fortran 77. Students and professionals will find that the portability of MPI, combined
with a thorough grounding in parallel programming principles, will allow them to program any parallel system, from
a network of workstations to a parallel supercomputer.
Proceeds from basic blocking sends and receives to the most esoteric aspects of MPI.
Includes extensive coverage of performance and debugging.
Discusses a variety of approaches to the problem of basic I/O on parallel machines.
Provides exercises and programming assignments.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 An Overview of Parallel Computing
Chapter 3 Greetings!
Chapter 4 An Application: Numerical Integration
Chapter 5 Collective Communication
Chapter 6 Grouping Data for Communication
Chapter 7 Communicators and Topologies
Chapter 8 Dealing with I/O
Chapter 9 Debugging Your Program
Chapter 10 Design and Coding of Parallel Programs
Chapter 11 Performance
Chapter 12 More on Performance
Chapter 13 Advanced Point-to-Point Communication
Chapter 14 Parallel Algorithms
Chapter 15 Parallel Libraries
Chapter 16 Wrapping Up
Appendix A Summary of MPI Commands
Appendix B MPI on the Internet
