{"title":"Toward supporting data parallel programming on clusters of symmetric multiprocessors","authors":"Chia-Lien Chiang, Jan-Jan Wu, Nai-Wei Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICPADS.1998.741143","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports the design of a runtime library for data-parallel programming on clusters of symmetric multiprocessors (SMP clusters). Our design algorithms exploit a hybrid methodology which maps directly to the underlying hierarchical memory system in SMP clusters, by combining two styles of programming methodologies-threads (shared memory programming) within a SMP node and message passing between SMP nodes. This hybrid approach has been used in the implementation of a library for collective communications. The prototype library is implemented based on standard interfaces for threads (pthread) and message passing (MPI). Experimental results on a cluster of Sun UltraSparc-II workstations are reported.","PeriodicalId":226947,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Cat. No.98TB100250)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Cat. No.98TB100250)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.1998.741143","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The paper reports the design of a runtime library for data-parallel programming on clusters of symmetric multiprocessors (SMP clusters). Our design algorithms exploit a hybrid methodology which maps directly to the underlying hierarchical memory system in SMP clusters, by combining two styles of programming methodologies-threads (shared memory programming) within a SMP node and message passing between SMP nodes. This hybrid approach has been used in the implementation of a library for collective communications. The prototype library is implemented based on standard interfaces for threads (pthread) and message passing (MPI). Experimental results on a cluster of Sun UltraSparc-II workstations are reported.