The Parallel Utilities Library

Author

Chapple, Simon R. ; Clarke, Lyndon J.

Author_Institution

Parallel Comput. Center, Edinburgh Univ., UK

fYear

1994

fDate

12-14 Oct 1994

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

30

Abstract

The paper describes the Parallel Utilities Library (PUL) which has been in development at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) since 1991. The primary aim of this project has been to support the porting of commercial and industrial applications to parallel systems by providing commonly required services within a suite of library modules implemented on top of message-passing. The library includes support for task parallelism, domain decomposition, unstructured mesh applications and parallel scalable I/O and has recently been ported to the emerging Message-Passing Interface (MPI) standard. A large number of industrial application codes have been parallelised by making use of PUL and we report on three such projects that have been carried out with Rolls-Royce, AEA Technology and Shell UK

Keywords

industries; message passing; parallel programming; software libraries; software portability; software reusability; subroutines; AEA Technology; MPI; Message-Passing Interface; PUL; Parallel Utilities Library; Rolls-Royce; Shell UK; domain decomposition; industrial applications; library modules; message passing; parallel scalable I/O; parallel systems; task parallelism; unstructured mesh applications; Application software; Computer industry; Costs; Libraries; Message passing; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Usability; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference, 1994., Proceedings of the 1994

Conference_Location

Mississippi State, MS

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6895-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPLC.1994.377008

Filename

377008