Programming Using the Message-Passing Paradigm

• A message passing architecture uses a set of primitives that allows processes to communicate with each other.
• i.e., send, receive, broadcast, and barrier.
• Numerous programming languages and libraries have been developed for explicit parallel programming.These differ in
  • their view of the address space that they make available to the programmer,
  • the degree of synchronization imposed on concurrent activities, and the multiplicity of programs.
• Some links; http://sal.jyu.fi/index.shtml Scientific Applications on Linux,
  http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/ Parallel Programming Laboratory.