The Message Passing Interface provides an interface for onesided communication as part of the MPI-2 standard. The semantics specified by MPI-2 allow for a number of different implementation avenues, each with different performance characteristics. Within the context of Open MPI, a freely available high performance MPI implementation, we analyze a number of implementation possibilities, includin...

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard provides a powerful mechanism for describing non-contiguousmemory locations: derived datatypes. In addition, MPI derived datatypes have a key role in the MPI-2 I/O operations. In principle, MPI derived datatypes allow a user to more efficiently communicate noncontiguous data (for example, strided data) because the MPI implementation can move the data...

MPI datatypes are a convenient abstraction for manipulating complex data structures and are useful in a number of contexts. In some cases, these descriptions need to be preserved on disk or communicated between processes, such as when defining RMA windows. We propose an extension to MPI that enables marshalling and unmarshalling MPI datatypes in the spirit of MPI_Pack/MPI_Unpack. Issues in MPI ...

In this paper, we apply two different parallel programming model, the message passing model using Message Passing Interface (MPI) and the multithreaded model using Pthreads, to protein sequence homologous search. The protein sequence homologous search uses Hirschberg algorithm for the pair-wise sequence alignment. The performance of the homologous search using the MPI-Pthread is compared to the...

While MPI is the most common mechanism for expressing parallelism, MPI programs are not composable by using current MPI process managers or parallel shells. We introduce MPISH2, an MPI process manager analogous to serial Unix shells. It allows the composition of MPI and serial Unix utilities with one another to perform scalable tasks across large numbers of Unix clients. This paper discusses in...

The MPI Forum This paper presents an overview of mpi, a proposed standard message passing interface for MIMD distributed memory concurrent computers. The design of mpi has been a collective eeort involving researchers in the United States and Europe from many organizations and institutions. mpi includes point-to-point and collective communication routines, as well as support for process groups,...

Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) plays a vital role in the evaluation and management of patients with coronary artery disease. However, because of a steep growth in MPI in the mid 2000s, concerns about inappropriate use of MPI and imaging-related radiation exposure increased. In response, the professional societies developed appropriate-use criteria for MPI. Simultaneously, novel...

BACKGROUND Fractional flow reserve (FFR) measured on catheterization is now widely used for the diagnosis of functional myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). FFR, however, is invasive and carries potential procedural complications. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic capability in functionally significant stenosis identified on FFR, betwe...