@Book{gropp:mpi2,
  author = {William Gropp and Ewing Lusk and Rajeev Thakur},
  title = {Using {MPI-2}: Advanced Features of the Message-Passing Interface},
  year = {1999},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA},
  URL = {http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262571331},
  keywords = {parallel computing, message passing, parallel I/O, multiprocessor
  file system interface, pario-bib},
  abstract = {The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used
  for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel
  computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer
  platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running
  Windows NT or Linux ("Beowulf" machines). The initial MPI Standard document,
  MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2,
  contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new
  features.\par Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors'
  1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new
  C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book. It contains greater
  discussion of datatype extents, the most frequently misunderstood feature of
  MPI-1, as well as material on the new extensions to basic MPI functionality
  added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective
  operations.\par Using MPI-2 covers the new extensions to basic MPI. These
  include parallel I/O, remote memory access operations, and dynamic process
  management. The volume also includes material on tuning MPI applications for
  high performance on modern MPI implementations.},
  comment = {Has a large chapter on MPI-IO with lots of example programs.}
}