id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt wd375t37939 Jeffrey M Squyres A Component Architecture for the Message Passing Interface (MPI): The Systems Services Interface (SSI) for LAM/MPI 2004 .txt text/plain 251 8 22 Previous versions of LAM/MPI, as well as other MPI implementations, are based on monolithic software architectures that -- regardless of how well-abstracted and logically constructed -- are highly complex software packages, presenting a steep learning curve for new developers and third parties. Each component framework was designed from analysis of prior monolithic implementations of LAM/MPI and represents a major functional category: run-time environment startup, MPI point-to-point communication, MPI collective communication, and parallel checkpoint/restart. cache/wd375t37939.txt txt/wd375t37939.txt