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Foil 48 PCF and OpenMP

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs I: Introduction DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel
PCF per se was not widely implemented
  • Timing: Distributed memory became popular
  • Complexity: Many details for special cases
  • Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome
Its ideas resurfaced in OpenMP
  • Primary differences are the spelling and low-level controls
  • Also some significant simplification (claimed to add scalability)

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