Design of a parallel C language for distributed systems

Author

Lee, Kyoungseok ; Kim, Jinmee ; Woo, Youngchoon

Author_Institution

Parallel Programming Sect., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

fYear

1997

fDate

18-21 Dec 1997

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

179

Abstract

The performance of a distributed system depends upon the efficiency of job distribution among processing nodes, as well as that of its system architecture and operating system. The paper presents an extended C language, ParaC, that supports efficient parallel programming on distributed systems. ParaC is designed to reduce the effort of job distribution on distributed programming environments. Our design includes the description of design goals for the parallel language, the definition of a programming model and the design of ParaC constructs. The paper also addresses the detailed design issues related to translation and finally presents our prototype

Keywords

C language; parallel languages; parallel programming; program interpreters; ParaC constructs; ParaC language; distributed programming environments; distributed systems; extended C language; job distribution; operating system; parallel C language; parallel programming; processing node; programming model; system architecture; translation; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Job design; Message passing; Operating systems; Parallel languages; Parallel programming; Programming environments; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Performance Computing, 1997. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8067-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HIPC.1997.634489

Filename

634489