16–27 Aug 2010
KTH main campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Lecture: MPI Basics

23 Aug 2010, 09:15
45m
E3 (KTH main campus)

E3

KTH main campus

KTH main campus Valhallavägen 79
Parallel Programming MPI

Speaker

Lilit Axner (PDC - Center for High-Performance Computing)

Description

This lecture gives you an overview of MPI functionality and discuss the value of having a standard message passing library. It provides a tailored tour of the basic concepts and mechanisms that will be of most value to you as beginning MPI programmers. This includes gaining a familiarity with some of the most commonly used MPI calls, the way in which MPI is initialized and terminated, the structure of messages, and the communicator concept. At the conclusion of this material, you can expect to be conversant with a basic set of six MPI calls necessary to begin designing and coding your own MPI applications.

Primary author

Lilit Axner (PDC - Center for High-Performance Computing)

Presentation materials