Inside the Message Passing Interface: Creating Fast Communication Libraries

English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-1501515545 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 18 MB

A hands-on guide to writing a Message Passing Interface, this book takes the reader on a tour across major MPI implementations, best optimization techniques, application relevant usage hints, and a historical retrospective of the MPI world, all based on a quarter of a century spent inside MPI. Readers will learn to write MPI implementations from scratch, and to design and optimize communication mechanisms using pragmatic subsetting as the guiding principle. Inside the Message Passing Interface also covers MPI quirks and tricks to achieve best performance.

• Inside knowledge of MPI presented in a hands-on fashion
• Optimization to the maximum performance possible in hardware
• Deep understanding of MPI’s advantages and drawbacks