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di_pSystem: A Parallel Programming System for Distributed Memory Architectures

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1999)

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Abstract

We present the architecture of a parallel programming system, the di_pSystem. Our target machine consists of clusters of multiprocessors interconnected with very fast networks.

The system aims to provide a programming style close to the shared memory programming model. This is achieved by a software layer between the programmer and the operating system that supports the communication between individual computational agents and that dynamically balances the work-load in the system. This layer effectively hides much of the complexity of programming distributed architectures from the programmer while being competitive in performance.

The low-level communication in the di pSystem is implemented using MPI as a backbone. Initial results indicate that the system is close in performance to MPI, a fact that we attribute to its ability to dynamically balance the work-load in the computations.

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  1. DCC-FC & LIACC, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150-180, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Silva, Hervé Paulino & Luís Lopes

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  1. OakRidge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 107, Ayres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1301, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  2. Computer Science Department Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Group, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Silva, F., Paulino, H., Lopes, L. (1999). di_pSystem: A Parallel Programming System for Distributed Memory Architectures. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_65

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