The Design and Evolution of the MPI-2 C++ Interface

The original specification for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) included language bindings for C and Fortran 77. C++ programs that used MPI were thus required to use the C bindings. With MPI-2, a C++ interface for all of MPI is specified. In this paper, we describe the design of the C++ interface for MPI and provide some of the history and motivations behind the design decisions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ISCOPE
• Authors: Jeffrey M. Squyres, William Saphir, Andrew Lumsdaine
• Keywords: C++ Interface, C++ Programs, Distributed And Parallel Computing, ISCOPE 1997, Message Passing Interface