A Draft Java Binding for MPI

Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox,
Sung-Hoon Ko, Xinying Li, Guansong Zhang
Northeast Parallel Architectures Centre,
Syracuse University,
111 College Place,
Syracuse, New York 13244-410
{dbc,gcf,shko,xli,zgs}npac.syr.edu

• Contents
• Introduction
• MPI Terms and Conventions
  • Document Notation
  • Procedure Specification
  • Semantic terms
  • Data types
  • Language Binding
  • Processes
  • Error Handling
• Point-to-Point Communication
  • Introduction
  • Blocking Send and Receive operations
  • Data type matching and data conversion
  • Communication Modes
  • Semantics of point-to-point communication
  • Buffer allocation and usage
  • Nonblocking communication
  • Probe and Cancel
  • Persistent communication requests
  • Send-receive
  • Null processes
  • Derived datatypes
  • Pack and unpack
• Collective Communication
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Communicator argument
  • Barrier synchronization
  • Broadcast
  • Gather
  • Scatter
  • Gather-to-all
  • All-to-All Scatter/Gather
  • Global Reduction Operations
  • Reduce-Scatter
  • Scan
  • Correctness
• Groups, Contexts and Communicators
  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts
  • Group Management
  • Communicator Management
  • Motivating Examples
  • Inter-Communication
  • Caching
• Process Topologies
  • Introduction
  • Virtual Topologies
  • Embedding in MPI
  • Overview of the Functions
  • Topology Constructors
• MPI Environmental Management
  • Implementation information
  • Error handling
  • Error codes and classes
  • Timers
  • Startup
• Full public interface of classes
  • MPI
  • Comm
  • Intracomm and Intercomm
  • Op
  • Group
  • Status
  • Request and Prequest
  • Datatype
  • Classes for virtual topologies
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