Skjellum co-authors third edition book for scientific programmers

Tony Skjellum, director of the Auburn Cyber Research Center and COLSA cyber security and information assurance professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, has co-authored a book titled, “Using MPI: Portable Programming with the Message-Passing Interface.” It is the third edition of the publication, which has become a standard in the field of scientific computing.

Skjellum, as well as his co-authors William Gropp, director of the Parallel Computing Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Ewing Lusk, Argonne distinguished fellow emeritus at Argonne National Laboratory, helped pioneer the concept of message-passing interface (MPI) and its first implementation, MPICH, making it a key parallel processing standard used worldwide.   

The team’s book takes an informal, tutorial approach to MPI and parallel programming concepts, introducing each through easy-to-understand examples. MPI is a standardized and portable message-passing system that is able to function on a variety of parallel computers.