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The design and evolution of the MPI-2 C++ interface

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Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments (ISCOPE 1997)

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The original specification for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) included language bindings for C and Fortran 77. C++ programs that used MPI were thus required to use the C bindings. With MPI-2, a C++ interface for all of MPI is specified. In this paper, we describe the design of the C++ interface for MPI and provide some of the history and motivations behind the design decisions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 46656, Notre Dame, IN

    Jeffrey M. Squyres & Andrew Lumsdaine

  2. NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA

    Bill Saphir

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  1. Jeffrey M. Squyres
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Yutaka Ishikawa Rodney R. Oldehoeft John V. W. Reynders Marydell Tholburn

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Squyres, J.M., Saphir, B., Lumsdaine, A. (1997). The design and evolution of the MPI-2 C++ interface. In: Ishikawa, Y., Oldehoeft, R.R., Reynders, J.V.W., Tholburn, M. (eds) Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63827-X_44

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