Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS MPI) is an implementation of the MPI-2 specification by

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for use in

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to interconnect and communicate (via messages) between

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nodes. It is mostly compatible with the MPICH2 reference implementation, with some exceptions for job launch and management. MS MPI includes bindings for C and FORTRAN languages. It supports using the Microsoft Visual Studio for debugging purposes. MS MPI can use any physical network, including

Gigabit Ethernet In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second. The most popular variant, 1000BASE-T, is defined by the IEEE 802.3ab standard. It came into use ...

Infiniband InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also use ...

and

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, for which a

Winsock In computing, the Windows Sockets API (WSA), later shortened to Winsock, is an application programming interface (API) that defines how Windows network application software should access network services, especially TCP/IP. It defines a standar ...

Direct driver has been provided. The Winsock Direct provider bypasses the

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stack of the OS and directly provides access to the networking hardware, using transport protocols tailored for the network type. In absence of such drivers, the

stack can also be used.

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Using Microsoft Message Passing Interface
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