Cristina Marinescu
ABSTRACT
Parallel programming is a computing paradigm that gains more and more adopters each year. Embracing parallel programming means in most of the cases the usage of a particular library that allows to add parallelism and concurrency to applications. Unfortunately there still is little knowledge about how parallel libraries are used in practice and without such information it is quite hard to promote them, for example, in terms of the importance of their provided functionalities. In this paper we focus on the usages of MPI, one of the most popular model facilitating parallel programming. By addressing research questions regarding the usage of MPI constructs as well as the structural complexity of MPI open source applications we aim to encourage new developers to embrace MPI, as well as to consider adopting open source systems which rely on MPI.
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- An empirical investigation on MPI open source applications
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