Transportable programs for parallel and heterogeneous systems

Author

Pancake, Cherri M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

581

Lastpage

585

Abstract

Changes in the nature and availability of parallel systems have led to increasing demand for programming languages and tools that support portability across multiple parallel platforms. In particular, users now look for support in migrating existing codes to new or different platforms, in transporting codes among a variety of systems without sacrificing performance, and in taking advantage of multiple systems for their program development activities. This paper reviews the requirements for multi-platform languages and tools. It describes the levels at which transportable parallelism can be supported and suggests criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of that support.<>

Keywords

open systems; parallel languages; parallel programming; software engineering; software portability; software tools; code migration; heterogeneous systems; multi-platform language requirements; multi-platform software tools; multiple parallel platforms; parallel systems; performance; portability; program development activities; programming languages; transportable parallelism; transportable programs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323225

Filename

323225