The goal of this textbook is to provide an analytical description of the message passing model. Although there are many models of this category, the book focuses on the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard, which has recently emerged in the field of parallel processing but has quickly established itself as the standard for the development of applications of this type.

Contents:

• Point-to-point communications
• Derived data types
• Collective communications
• Process groups and communicators
• Process topologies
• Input-output in MPI
• One-sided communications
• Dynamic process management
• Event logging
• Creating graphics
• The MPICH implementation