I just received my copy of the newly published Using Advanced MPI: Modern Features of the Message-Passing Interface. Written by William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Ewing Lusk, and Rajeev Thakur, the book ...

While many application tuning guides focus on understanding the performance of an application on a single node, a very scalable application will use multiple node to achieve very high performance.

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code.

MPI (Message Passing Interface) is the de facto standard distributed communications framework for scientific and commercial parallel distributed computing. The Intel MPI implementation is a core ...