2.12. What Is Included in the Standard?

The standard includes:

• Point-to-point communication,
• Partitioned communication,
• Datatypes,
• Collective operations,
• Process groups,
• Communication contexts,
• Virtual Topologies for MPI Processes,
• Environmental management and inquiry,
• The Info object,
• Process initialization, creation, and management,
• One-sided communication,
• External interfaces,
• Parallel file I/O,
• Tool support,
• Language bindings for Fortran and C, and
• Additional topics in side-documents.