On Fri, 30 May 2003, Fernando Aires wrote:
> MPI runs over TCP/IP? Or MPI is considered a protocol?
As Nelson pointed out, most MPI implementations offer an MPI that runs
over TCP. However, MPI itself is not a protocol. It is a standard for an
API (i.e., it is a document -- see http://www.mpi-forum.org/). How teach
MPI implementation chooses to make that API get messages from one process
to another is totally up to that implementation. LAM/MPI offers several
different message transports: TCP, shared memory, and (soon) Myrinet.
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