MPI for Python
- Author
Lisandro Dalcin
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- Date
Oct 06, 2021
Abstract
This document describes the MPI for Python package. MPI for Python provides Python bindings for the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard, allowing Python applications to exploit multiple processors on workstations, clusters and supercomputers.
This package builds on the MPI specification and provides an object oriented interface resembling the MPI-2 C++ bindings. It supports point-to-point (sends, receives) and collective (broadcasts, scatters, gathers) communication of any picklable Python object, as well as efficient communication of Python objects exposing the Python buffer interface (e.g. NumPy arrays and builtin bytes/array/memoryview objects).