MPI/RT-an emerging standard for high-performance real-time systems

The past few years saw an emergence of standardization activities for real-time systems including standardization of operating systems (series of POSIX standards), of communication for distributed (POSIX.21) and parallel systems (MPI/RT) and real-time object management (real-time CORBA). The article describes the ongoing work of real-time message passing interface (MPI/RT) standardization. MPI/RT advances the Message Passing Interface Standard (MPI), emphasizing changes that enable and support real-time communication, and is targeted for embedded, fault-tolerant and other real-time systems.