Glenda: an environment for easy parallel programming

Author

Seyfarth, B.R. ; Bickham, J.L. ; Fernandez, M.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Southern Mississippi Univ., Hattiesburg, MS, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

23-25 May 1994

Firstpage

637

Lastpage

641

Abstract

Introduces a software package called “Glenda”, designed to support easy parallel programming. Glenda implements a coordination language based on a global “tuple space”. This coordination language consists of seven operations to output and input tuples from within participating programs. Glenda communications are performed using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) message passing functions. The Glenda package consists of a preprocessor to add the coordination operations to the C programming language, a set of communication functions and a tuple server process. We show the utility of Glenda based on an underwater acoustic modeling benchmark

Keywords

acoustic analysis; file servers; message passing; parallel programming; physics computing; programming environments; underwater sound; virtual machines; C programming language; Glenda; PVM message passing functions; Parallel Virtual Machine; benchmark; communication functions; coordination language; global tuple space; parallel programming environment; preprocessor; software package; tuple server process; underwater acoustic modeling; Buffer storage; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer languages; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Message passing; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Software packages; Virtual machining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable High-Performance Computing Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5680-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SHPCC.1994.296701

Filename

296701