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Modernizing the C++ Interface to MPI

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The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is thede facto standard for writing message passing applications. Much of MPI’s power stems from its ability to provide a high-performance, consistent interface across C, Fortran, and C++. Unfortunately, with cross-language consistency at the forefront, MPI tends to support only the lowest common denominator of the three languages, providing a level of abstraction far lower than typical C++ libraries. For instance, MPI does not inherently support standard C++ constructs such ascontainers anditerators, nor does it provide seamless support for user-defined classes. To map these common C++ constructs into MPI, programmers must often write non-trivial boiler-plate code and weaken the type-safety guarantees provided by C++. This paper describes several ideas for modernizing the C++ interface to MPI, providing a more natural syntax along with seamless support for user-defined types and C++ Standard Library constructs. We also sketch the C++ techniques required to implement this interface and provide a preliminary performance evaluation illustrating that our modern interface does not imply unnecessary overhead.

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  1. Open Systems Laboratory, Indiana University,  

    Prabhanjan Kambadur, Douglas Gregor, Andrew Lumsdaine & Amey Dharurkar

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  1. Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZAM, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Bernd Mohr

  2. NEC Europe Ltd., NEC Laboratories Europe, Rathausallee 10, D-53757, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Jesper Larsson Träff

  3. Dolphin Interconnect Solutions ASA R&D Germany, Siebengebirgsblick 26, 53343, Wachtberg, Germany

    Joachim Worringen

  4. Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

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Kambadur, P., Gregor, D., Lumsdaine, A., Dharurkar, A. (2006). Modernizing the C++ Interface to MPI. In: Mohr, B., Träff, J.L., Worringen, J., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11846802_39

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