Di_pSystem: A Parallel Programming System for Distributed Memory Architectures

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 1999

Authors

Fernando M A Silva (Author) FCUP; Hervé Paulino (Author) Other; Luís M B Lopes (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, 6th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, September 26-29, 1999, Proceedings

Pages: 525-532

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Authenticus ID: P-008-KJK

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48158-3_65

Abstract (EN): 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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8