MPI task framework is an experimental concurrency model using message passing and task only. The goal is to think "concurrent-first" when designing your software. The basic concept of this method is to design using task and messages. A task is an independant process that can only communicate throught messages. This force the user to think more about the data that would be share.
Message-passing interface is a common way to communicate between threads, process and nodes.
Task is a basic executable process. In this case, each task will be a thread. A task communicate only using messages.
One goal of this framework is to have deisgn reflex that favor scalability. The framework should work transparently for intra-thread, IPC and network.
The goal of this framework is to show how good concurrent practices can lead to a more scalable software. At design phase, each software fuctionality must be seen as a task and communication between done using messages.
Implementation example :
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Request Ack Response Ack
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Samplesort algorithm (TODO)
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Echo server with n clients