Introduction to MPI

Overview

• Tutorial: 3 hours

  Objectives:

  1. Learn what is MPI

MPI MPI stands for Message Passing Interface. It is the de-facto standard for parallel programming that enables the program to use large numbder of processors to solve a problem.

Note

This project is under active development.

Contents

• Getting Started
• MPI 101
  • MPI 101
  • Example: Monte-carlo Approximation of Pi
  • The Basic MPI calls
    • Communicator
    • Basic Communication Management
    • “Close” MPI process
• Topic 1: Syntax and Semantics
  • MPI Semantics
  • MPI Operations
  • MPI Procedures
  • MPI Functions
• Topic 2: Point-to-point Communication
  • Point-to-point Communication
  • Topic 2A: Blocking Communication
  • Topic 2D: Nonblocking Communication
    • Persistent Communication
• Topic 3: Collective Communication
  • Collective Communication
    • One to all Communication
    • All to One Communication
    • All to All Communication
• Topic 4: One-sided Communication
  • One-sided Communication
    • One to all Communication
    • All to One Communication
    • All to All Communication