message passing Last modified: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
A type of communication between processes. Message passing is a form of communication used in parallel programming and object-oriented programming. Communications are completed by the sending of messages (functions, signals and data packets) to recipients. See also Message Passing Interface (MPI).
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