Best books to learn MPI programming

Question

What are the best book for learning MPI (C,C++ implementation) ?

Answer 1

G'day,

You might like to have a look at IBM doc. which is available on line over at the National Energy Research Scientific Centre site.

Edit: Unfortunately, the above link appears to have disappeared. But here's another copy of the IBM MPI Programming Guide.

BTW That document has quite an extensive bibliography in the back.

Edit: I forgot to say there's also the IBM Red Book as well.

HTH.

cheers,

Answer 2

A good introduction is "Parallel Programming with MPI" by Peter Pacheco, ISBN 1-55860-339-5. This starts with some very basic examples, and builds up to showing you how to implement various message-passing algorithms in MPI. There's also good information about how to use MPI's collectives - not something I found straightforward from simply reading the API.

Answer 3

I thought Parallel Programming Techinques did a good job.

Answer 4

I use "Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP" by Quinn and "Introduction to Parallel Computing" by Grama et al as my main learning books. "Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI" also seems pretty good but since I'm not much into C++ I only dipped in and out of it.