Towards a distributed memory implementation of Sisal

Author

Haines, Matthew ; Böhm, Wim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

26-29 Apr 1992

Firstpage

385

Lastpage

392

Abstract

Sisal is a functional language for scientific applications implemented efficiently on shared memory, vector, and hierarchical memory multiprocessors. The current compiler assumes a flat, shared addressing space, and the runtime system is implemented using locks and shared queues. This paper describes a first implementation of Sisal on the nCUBE 2 distributed memory architecture. Most of the effort is focused on altering the runtime system for execution in a message passing environment and providing the Sisal compiler with a distributed shared memory. The authors give preliminary performance results and outline future work

Keywords

distributed memory systems; functional programming; message passing; natural sciences computing; parallel languages; program compilers; shared memory systems; Sisal; Streams and Iterations in a Single Assignment Language; compiler; functional language; locks; message passing environment; nCUBE 2 distributed memory architecture; performance; runtime system; scientific applications; shared addressing space; shared queues; Computer architecture; Computer science; Delay; Distributed computing; Hardware; Memory architecture; Message passing; Parallel processing; Programming profession; Runtime environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable High Performance Computing Conference, 1992. SHPCC-92, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2775-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SHPCC.1992.232668

Filename

232668