Message Passing

Question 1

What are the two basic inter-process communication operations in a message passing model in parallel computing?

Answer 1

send() and receive()

Question 2

What is MPI?

Answer 2

Message passing interface (MPI) is a standard specification in the form of a library of functions that programmers can call from C, C++, or Fortran code to write parallel programs for parallel computation in distributed-memory systems.

Question 3

What are the three different communication methods that MPI processes can use to communicate with each other?

Answer 3

Point-to-point, collective, and one-sided