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slavak on Feb 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Multithreading Magic - Why Everything You Thought ...

Having read up a bit more on ZeroMQ, I have to ask: How is this, if at all, superior to, say, MPI[1]?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface

phintjens on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

Significantly simpler, faster, and more general. MPI is like one of the patterns ZeroMQ provides (the pipeline pattern) with a lot on top. That makes it great for parallel programming, but not so great for (e.g.) data distribution (pubsub) and other forms of message queuing.

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