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Hands-on: Hello world

Parallel hello world
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In this exercise you learn how to write the simplest possible MPI program.

Source code for this exercise is located in mpi/hello-world/

Write a parallel Python program using MPI that prints out the number of processes and the MPI rank of each process.

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