This publication documents the SGI version 1.6 implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) supported on SGI MIPS based systems running IRIX release 6.5 or later and as a beta release on Linux systems. MPI is a component of the SGI Message Passing Toolkit (MPT).
IRIX systems running MPI applications must also be running Array Services software version 3.1 or later. MPI consists of a library, a profiling library, and commands that support MPI. The MPT 1.6 release is a software package that supports parallel programming across a network of computer systems through a technique known as message passing.
The Message Passing Toolkit: PVM Programmer's Manual contains additional information that might be helpful. You can obtain this document or any other SGI documentation from the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://techpubs.sgi.com.
Material about MPI is available from a variety of other sources. Some of these, particularly Web pages, include pointers to other resources. Following is a grouped list of these sources:
The MPI standard:
As a technical report: University of Tennessee report (reference [24] from Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum).
As online PostScript or hypertext on the Web:
As a journal article in the International Journal of Supercomputer Applications, volume 8, number 3/4, 1994.
As text through the IRIS InSight library (for customers with access to this tool).
Book: Using MPI: Portable Parallel Programming with the Message-Passing Interface, by Gropp, Lusk, and Skjellum, publication TPD-0011.
Newsgroup: comp.parallel.mpi
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SGI systems include all Linux systems and all MIPS based systems that run IRIX 6.5 or later.
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