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Message-Passing Programming Paradigm (cont'd)

  • A single program is run on each processor.
  • All variables are private.
  • Processes communicate via special subroutine calls - MPI is just a library!
  • There is no "magic" parallelism.
  • Written in a conventional sequential language, i.e. C or Fortran (no special compiler)

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