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MPI was originally developed for C, C++ and Fortran. In practice these programming platforms are still the most common. Based on the discussion in the last chapter, we briefly sketch how to implement message passing in C/C++. Actually, we mainly concentrate on C, since on a basic level, message passing relies on elementary C concepts such as pointers and arrays.
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Smith, E. (2020). Parallel Computing in C/C++. In: Introduction to the Tools of Scientific Computing. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60808-8_12
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