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 | 2 | /** \page group The Group Library
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 | 11 | </ul>
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 | 13 | \section messagepassing Message Passing
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 | 15 | The MessageGrp class is the ancestor for classes that provide the passing
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 | 19 | <dl>
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 | 21 |   <dt>ProcMessageGrp<dd>Provides a dummy MessageGrp for single processor
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 | 22 |                         case.
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 | 24 |   <dt>MPIMessageGrp<dd>Implements MessageGrp using the Message Passing
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 | 25 |                        Interface (MPI) library.
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 | 27 |   <dt>ShmMessageGrp<dd>Implements MessageGrp using SysV Interprocess
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 | 28 |                        communication.
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 | 30 | </dl>
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 | 32 | Due to the widespread acceptance of MPI and the large number of features
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 | 33 | that it supports, the MessageGrp specialization may one day be eliminated.
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 | 35 | \section distmemory Distributed Shared Memory
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 | 37 | The MemoryGrp class is the ancestor for classes that permit access to the
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 | 38 | memory in different processes, possible on difference machines.  There are
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 | 43 |   <dt>ProcMemoryGrp<dd>Provides a dummy MemoryGrp for single processor
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 | 44 |                        case.
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 | 46 |   <dt>MTMPIMemoryGrp<dd> This works reliably and efficiently, however,
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 | 47 |                          requires POSIX threads and a thread-safe MPI
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 | 48 |                          implementation.
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 | 50 |   <dt>ARMCIMemoryGrp<dd> This message group uses the Aggregate Remote Copy
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 | 51 |                          Interface (ARMCI).  This exploits the RDMA
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 | 52 |                          capabilities of interconnects such as Myrinet and
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 | 53 |                          InfiniBand.
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 | 56 | </dl>
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 | 58 | \section multithreading Multi-Threading
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 | 60 | The ThreadGrp class is the ancestor of classes that provide
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 | 61 | multiple-threads within a single address space.  There are
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 | 64 | <dl>
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 | 66 |   <dt>ProcThreadGrp<dd>Provides a dummy ThreadGrp for the single thread
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 | 69 |   <dt>PthreadThreadGrp<dd> This is a ThreadGrp that uses POSIX threads.
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 | 71 | </dl>
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 | 74 | */
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