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Thread-oriented Message-Passing interface

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In this paper the limitations of the standard Message-Passing Interface (MPI) are analyzed, then the technique of multithreading is introduced and a stand-alone LWP (light weight process) extension to MPI is implemented. Experimental results show that system overhead is considerably diminished.

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  1. Message Passing Interface Forum. MPI: A Message Passing Interface Standard, June 1995

  2. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lightweight Process Library, sun release 4.1 edition, January, 1990

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  1. School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Road, 200072, Shanghai

    Tong Weiqin (Asso. Prof.), Zhou Qinghua & Gu Zhikui

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  1. Tong Weiqin
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  2. Zhou Qinghua
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Tong, W., Zhou, Q. & Gu, Z. Thread-oriented Message-Passing interface. J. of Shanghai Univ. 2, 59–61 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-998-0029-5

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