• DocumentCode
    1426615
  • Title

    The case for high-level parallel programming in ZPL

  • Author

    Chamberlain, Bradford L. ; Choi, Sung-Eun ; Lewis, E. Christopher ; Snyder, Lawrence ; Weathersby, W. Derrick ; Lin, Calvin

  • Author_Institution
    Washington Univ., USA
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1998
  • Firstpage
    76
  • Lastpage
    86
  • Abstract
    Message passing programs are efficient, but fall short on convenience and portability. ZPL is a high level language that offers competitive performance and portability, as well as programming conveniences lacking in low level approaches. ZPL runs on a variety of parallel and sequential computers. We describe the problems with message passing and describe how ZPL simplifies the task of programming for parallel computers-without sacrificing efficiency
  • Keywords
    message passing; parallel languages; parallel programming; ZPL high level language; competitive performance; high level parallel programming; message passing programs; parallel computers; portability; sequential computers; Assembly; Computer aided software engineering; Concurrent computing; Hardware; High level languages; Magnetic heads; Message passing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Runtime;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computational Science & Engineering, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-9924
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/99.714604
  • Filename
    714604