I am looking for a good introductory text on the MPI

I am getting ready to do some research in parallel computing next semester, and I'd love to have the MPI down pat by the start of the school year. However, the top-ranked hits on Amazon are very old, the newest being from 1999.开发者_运维技巧 Are there any more modern texts? Thanks very much.

The MPI2 standard came out in 1999, so the age of the books isn't a worry. (MPI-3 is just around the corner, but it will be some time before any texts reflect this.) I usually give my students what I consider the standard books; Using MPI, 2nd ed and Using MPI-2. They're authoratiative, and fairly well written.

This one is the one that I have, and I am quite fond of it:

http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Programming-C-MPI-OpenMP/dp/0072822562

It is pretty much the same age as the ones you found (2003), but MPI did not change much over that time period.