A data parallel C and its platforms

Author

Gokhale, Maya ; Schlesinger, Judith D.

Author_Institution

David Sarnoff Res. Center, Princeton, NJ, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

6-9 Feb 1995

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

202

Abstract

dbC is a data parallel extension to ANSI C similar to Thinking Machines C* and MasPar MPL. To facilitate bit-oriented computation, dbC supports computation with arbitrary precision integer data, bit string extraction and insertion, and function parameters with dynamic bit length. In this paper, we describe dbC and its mapping to three very different architectures: (1) Terasys, an experimental SIMD machine which associates a single-bit processor with a column of SRAM memory; (2) Splash-2, a reconfigurable logic array of Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) that operates as a parallel co-processor; and (3) clusters of Condor-controlled workstations communicating via the MNFS distributed shared memory

Keywords

C language; parallel languages; parallel programming; ANSI C; Condor-controlled workstations; MNFS distributed shared memory; MasPar MPL; SRAM memory; Splash-2; Terasys; Thinking Machines C*; Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays; arbitrary precision integer data; bit string extraction; data parallel C; dbC; dynamic bit length; function parameters; reconfigurable logic array; single-bit processor; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Coprocessors; Data mining; Field programmable gate arrays; Logic programming; Parallel programming; Programmable logic arrays; Random access memory; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1995. Proceedings. Frontiers '95., Fifth Symposium on the

Conference_Location

McLean, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6965-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FMPC.1995.380448

Filename

380448