Title :
Emulating shared memory to simplify distributed-memory programming
Author :
Clarke, Jerry A.
Author_Institution :
US Army Res. Lab., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA
Abstract :
A system called Network Distributed Global Memory simplifies parallel computing in a distributed memory environment by allowing processors to be programmed as though they had shared memory. NDGM manages message passing; applications perform puts and gets to a virtual buffer. Porting a 3D fluid dynamics code to NDGM was much easier than writing an explicit message passing version
Keywords :
distributed memory systems; fluid dynamics; message passing; parallel programming; physics computing; software portability; virtual storage; 3D fluid dynamics code; NDGM; Network Distributed Global Memory; VS; distributed memory environment; distributed memory programming; message passing management; parallel computing; shared memory emulation; virtual buffer; virtual storage; Aggregates; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Message passing; Military computing; Power engineering computing; Supercomputers; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
