On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Jeff Flinn wrote:
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As Dave mentioned earlier, this information can then used by the MPI library (and network hardware) to directly serialize the data into the I/O buffers of the network interconnect, without ever creating a copy in memory, and automatically taking care of potential endianness and format issues on heterogeneous networks.
Do you have any recommendations for links discussing MPI? I just found http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/ via Google. Is this the best starting point?
Besides your link I would recommend: http://www.mpi-forum.org/ is the official standard web page http://www.lam-mpi.org/ for one implementation (done by the Indiana group that also contributed many Boost libraries) http://www.open-mpi.org/ for the latest efforts for an open-source high-performance MPI library as well as any of the many books on MPI. Alternatively you could attend the short MPI course that I will teach on Friday in Zurich, Switzerland. Matthias