@inproceedings{74c5187cbba94994887b0164cfd6555a,
title = "Goals guiding design: PVM and MPI",
abstract = "PVM and MPI, two systems for programming clusters, are often compared. The comparisons usually start with the unspoken assumption that PVM and MPI represent different solutions to the same problem. In this paper we show that, in fact, the two systems often are solving different problems. In cases where the problems do match but the solutions chosen by PVM and MPI are different, we explain the reasons for the differences. Usually such differences can be traced to explicit differences in the goals of the two systems, their origins, or the relationship between their specifications and their implementations. For example, we show that the requirement for portability and performance across many platforms caused MPI to choose approaches different from those made by PVM, which is able to exploit the similarities of network-connected systems.",
keywords = "Books, Computer science, Laboratories, Libraries, Mathematical programming, Mathematics, Parallel algorithms, Parallel processing, Supercomputers, Writing",
author = "W. Gropp and E. Lusk",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2002 IEEE.; IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2002 ; Conference date: 23-09-2002 Through 26-09-2002",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137754",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, ICCC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "257--265",
editor = "Bill Gropp and Rajkumar Buyya and Rob Pennington and Maxine Brown and Mark Baker and Dan Reed",
booktitle = "Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, CLUSTER 2002",
address = "United States",
}