Message Passing

Message passing is a communication mechanism by which independent processes in parallel and distributed computing systems exchange information through the explicit transmission and reception of messages rather than through shared memory.

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Authors

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Publications per year

2017–2026

774

Variants

Message-passing

Parents

High-performance Computing

Children

Asynchronous Message PassingBarrier SynchronizationBlocking CommunicationBroadcast CommunicationCollective CommunicationCommunication SchedulingCommunication TopologiesDeadlock AvoidanceDistributed Memory ProgrammingFault Tolerance In Communication

Publications

5.1K

GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation

Herman J. C. Berendsen, David van der Spoel, Rudi van Drunen · Computer Physics Communications · 1995 · 10.5K citations

Natural Sciences, High-performance Computing, Physics +10

Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

Frank R. Kschischang, Brendan J. Frey, Hans‐Andrea Loeliger · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2001 · 6.5K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

The capacity of low-density parity-check codes under message-passing decoding

Tom Richardson, Rüdiger Urbanke · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2001 · 3.1K citations · Full text

Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering +16

Using MPI: Portable parallel programming with the message-passing interface

Computers & Mathematics with Applications · 1995 · 2.9K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +14

MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard

Message P Forum · 1994 · 2.7K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +9

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Authors

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William Gropp
Argonne National Laboratory, United States
30 publications · 3.7K citations
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Dhabaleswar K. Panda
The Ohio State University, United States
46 publications · 1.5K citations
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Pavan Balaji
Argonne National Laboratory, United States
29 publications · 1K citations
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Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States
26 publications · 1.8K citations
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Qinghua Guo
University of Wollongong, Australia
20 publications · 1.3K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
81 publications · 18.6K citations
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 146 publications · 5.3K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
TPDS · 74 publications · 3.8K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Communications
68 publications · 4.2K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
36 publications · 2.1K citations
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See also Message Passing
Core Operations	Asynchronous Message Passing Buffer Allocation Point-to-point Communication Synchronous Message Passing
Communication Models	Asynchronous Message Passing Causal Ordering Synchronous Message Passing Point-to-point Communication Rendezvous Communication Non-fifo Message Delivery Nonblocking Communication Blocking Communication Buffered Communication
System Implementations	Message Passing Interface
Performance Factors	Load Balancing Cache Coherence Synchronization Overhead Communication Delays Throughput Communication Overhead Scalability
Failure Handling	Fault Recovery Message Logging Deadlock Detection Failure Detectors Fault Detection Checkpointing Coordinated Checkpointing Incremental Checkpointing Exception Propagation Fault Masking