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Ashwin Pajankar, Raspberry Pi Supercomputing and Scientific Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2878-4_5

5. Message Passing Interface

Ashwin Pajankar

(1)Nashik, Maharashtra, India

In the last chapter, we learned the history and philosophy of supercomputers. We also learned important concepts related to supercomputing.

In this short chapter, we will get started with installing necessary packages and libraries on a Raspberry Pi. We will install MPI4PY, which is a Python library for MPI. Finally, we will install the utility nmap for node discovery.

Message Passing Interface

The Message Passing Interface Standard (MPI) is a message passing library standard based on the recommendations of the MPI Forum. The MPI Forum has over 40 participating ...

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