PROMOTER: an application-oriented programming model for massive parallelism

Author

Giloi, W.K. ; Schramm, A.

Author_Institution

GDM Res. Inst. for Comput. Archit. & Software Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

20-23 Sep 1993

Firstpage

198

Lastpage

205

Abstract

The article deals with rationale and concepts of a programming model for massive parallelism. We mention the basic properties of massively parallel applications and develop a programming model for data parallelism on distributed-memory computers. Its key features are a suitable combination of homogeneity and heterogeneity aspects, a unified representation of data point configuration and interconnection schemes by explicit virtual data topologies, and various synchronization schemes and nondeterminisms. The outline of the linguistic representation and the abstract executional model are given

Keywords

distributed memory systems; parallel programming; synchronisation; PROMOTER; abstract executional model; application-oriented programming model; data parallelism; data point configuration; distributed-memory computers; explicit virtual data topologies; heterogeneity aspects; homogeneity; interconnection schemes; linguistic representation; massive parallelism; massively parallel applications; nondeterminisms; synchronization schemes; unified representation; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Differential equations; Distributed computing; Object oriented modeling; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Software; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Programming Models for Massively Parallel Computers, 1993. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4900-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMMP.1993.315539

Filename

315539