A Programming Environment for Heterogenous Distributed Memory Machines
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Arapov, Dmitry
Kalinov, Alexey
Lastovetsky, Alexey
Ledovskih, Ilya
Lewis, Ted
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1997
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IEEE
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mpC is a programming language of medium level for
distributed memory machines (DMM). The language is an
ANSI C superset based on the notion of network comprising
virtual processors of different types and performances
connected with links of different bandwidths. It allows the
user to describe a network topology, create and discard
networks, distribute data and computations over the networks.
In other words, the user can specify (dynamically)
the topology of his application, and the mpC programming
environment will use this (topological) information in run
time to ensure the efficient execution of the application on
any particular DMM. The paper outlines the most principal
features of mpC and its programming environment
making them suitable tools to write efficient and portable
parallel programs for heterogenous DMMs.
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Computer Science (CS)
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