Programming shared virtual memory multiprocessors

Author

Gerndt, Michael

Author_Institution

Central Inst. for Appl. Math, Res. Centre Julich, Germany

fYear

1996

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Highly parallel machines needed to solve compute intensive scientific applications are based on the distribution of physical memory across the compute nodes. The drawback of such systems is the difficult message passing programming model. Therefore, a lot of research in simplifying the programming model is going on. This article investigates the combination of a task parallel programming model implemented on top of a shared virtual address space provided by the operating system of the parallel machine

Keywords

distributed memory systems; message passing; operating systems (computers); parallel machines; parallel programming; shared memory systems; virtual storage; compute intensive scientific applications; message passing programming model; operating system; parallel machines; parallel programming; physical memory distribution; shared virtual address space; shared virtual memory multiprocessors; task parallel programming model; Bandwidth; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Distributed computing; Message passing; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Physics computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1996. PDP '96. Proceedings of the Fourth Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7376-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.1996.500561

Filename

500561