Footnotes

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Correspondence to: Vladimir Getov, School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, Harrow HA1 3TP, U.K.

Contract grant sponsor: National Science Foundation, Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research; Contract grant number 9872125.

Contract grant sponsor: Higher Education Funding Council for England (U.K.) under the NFF initiative.

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... management ²

Given its spartan implementation in the non-Java space, we may not need the whole of MPI-2.

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... buffer ³

Or methods like send could be overloaded to accept buffers with elements of the nine basic types. The disadvantage of this approach is that it leads to a major proliferation in the number of methods.

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