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<span class="firstname">Douglas</span> <span class="surname">Gregor</span>
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Boost.MPI is a library for message passing in high-performance parallel applications.
A Boost.MPI program is one or more processes that can communicate either via
sending and receiving individual messages (point-to-point communication) or
by coordinating as a group (collective communication). Unlike communication
in threaded environments or using a shared-memory library, Boost.MPI processes
can be spread across many different machines, possibly with different operating
systems and underlying architectures.
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Boost.MPI is not a completely new parallel programming library. Rather, it
is a C++-friendly interface to the standard Message Passing Interface (<a href="http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/" target="_top">MPI</a>), the most popular library
interface for high-performance, distributed computing. MPI defines a library
interface, available from C, Fortran, and C++, for which there are many <a href="http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/implementations.html" target="_top">MPI implementations</a>.
Although there exist C++ bindings for MPI, they offer little functionality
over the C bindings. The Boost.MPI library provides an alternative C++ interface
to MPI that better supports modern C++ development styles, including complete
support for user-defined data types and C++ Standard Library types, arbitrary
function objects for collective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library
techniques to maintain maximal efficiency.
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At present, Boost.MPI supports the majority of functionality in MPI 1.1. The
thin abstractions in Boost.MPI allow one to easily combine it with calls to
the underlying C MPI library. Boost.MPI currently supports:
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Communicators: Boost.MPI supports the creation, destruction, cloning, and
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Point-to-point communication: Boost.MPI supports point-to-point communication
of primitive and user-defined data types with send and receive operations,
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Collective communication: Boost.MPI supports collective operations such
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and <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="boost/mpi/gather.html" title="Function gather">gather</a></code>
with both built-in and user-defined data types and function objects.
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MPI Datatypes: Boost.MPI can build MPI data types for user-defined types
using the <a href="../../libs/serialization/doc" target="_top">Boost.Serialization</a>
library.
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Separating structure from content: Boost.MPI can transfer the shape (or
"skeleton") of complex data structures (lists, maps, etc.) and
then separately transfer their content. This facility optimizes for cases
where the data within a large, static data structure needs to be transmitted
many times.
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Boost.MPI can be accessed either through its native C++ bindings, or through
its alternative, <a class="link" href="mpi/python.html" title="Python Bindings">Python interface</a>.
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