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To become widespread, parallel computing should be based on advanced commodity technology, and parallel languages are no exception. But parallel languages must also support a wide range of parallel programming styles, ease of programming, and high performance. We show that C++ can support a wide range of parallel programming styles without special language extensions. More concretely, we used MPC++, a parallel dialect of C++ extended using only templates and inheritance, to create a prototype class/template library which supports three kinds of parallel programming styles. We tested the library performance with representative programs in each of the programming styles.
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Matsuoka, S., Nikami, A., Ogawa, H., Ishikawa, Y. (1997). Towards a parallel C++ programming language based on commodity object-oriented technologies. In: Ishikawa, Y., Oldehoeft, R.R., Reynders, J.V.W., Tholburn, M. (eds) Scientific Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63827-X_47
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