MPI is often compared with Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), which is a popular distributed environment and message passing system developed in 1989, and which was one of the systems that motivated the need for standard parallel message passing.
Festus is a city in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 11,602 at the 2010 census. Festus and its neighbor Crystal City are often collectively known as the Twin Cities; however, they are incorporated separately.
Festus, MO is the home of alt-country legends, The Bottle Rockets. The town is mentioned in the 1974 country song (We're Not) The Jet Set, in which George Jones and Tammy Wynette sing about road tripping around the Midwestern and Southern part of the United States in a Chevrolet while falling in love.