Appendix B
Parallel Programming Using MPI4Py
B.1 Introduction to MPI
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a system designed for programming parallel computers. It defines a library of routines that can be programmed using Fortran or C and is supported by most hardware vendors. There are popular MPI versions both free and commercially available for use. MPI version 1 was released in 1994. The current version is MPI2. This appendix serves as a brief introduction to parallel programming using Python and MPI. Interested readers are encouraged to check the MPI4Py documentation [66] and books on MPI [29] and [73] for more details.
MPI is useful on distributed memory systems and also on a shared memory system. The distributed memory system consists of ...
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