Title :
Semi-structured portable library for multiprocessor servers
Author :
Tsilikas, Georgios ; Fleury, Martin
Author_Institution :
Multimedia Architectures Lab., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
The MiPPS library supports a hybrid model of parallel programming. The library is targeted at commodity multiprocessors, with support for clusters. The implementation of the concurrency routines reveals discrepancies between popular operating systems. Tests on suitable applications also reveal similar discrepancies in performance across different multiprocessors. The MiPPS library has also been the basis of a parallelization of the Active Chart Parsing algorithm for speech understanding.
Keywords :
C++ language; distributed shared memory systems; operating systems (computers); parallel algorithms; parallel programming; software libraries; software performance evaluation; software portability; speech processing; Active Chart Parsing algorithm; C++ programming language; MiPPS library; clusters; commodity multiprocessors; concurrency routines; distributed shared memory models; hybrid model; multiprocessor servers; operating systems; parallel algorithm; parallel programming; performance; portable software library; semi-structured portable library; speech understanding; Application software; Data structures; Hidden Markov models; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Parallel programming; Software algorithms; Software libraries; Speech;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. International
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1926-1
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213421
