Abstract
A breakthrough of distributed memory architectures as general purpose programmable computers depends strongly on the ease of programming such machines. TOPSYS (TOols for Parallel SYStems) is an integrated environment for programming distributed memory multiprocessors. Its concepts and application on an iPSC/2 multiprocessor are presented. It is based on a simple message passing process model implemented in the operating system kernel MMK with a global object space. A smooth transition of parallelization methodology from manual to interactive (semiautomated) and finally to fully automated is provided with this environment. It uses several distributed monitoring techniques and offers various development tools ranging from specification to performance analysis. Fully transparent dynamic load balancing is being implemented.
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Bemmerl, T., Bode, A. (1991). An integrated environment for programming distributed memory multiprocessors. In: Bode, A. (eds) Distributed Memory Computing. EDMCC 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 487. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032930
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