NPAC Technical Report SCCS-548

Integrating Multiple Programming Paradigms on Connection Machine CM5 in a Dataflow-based Software Environment (draft)

Gang Cheng, Geoffrey Fox, Kim Mills

Submitted October 01 1993


Abstract

By viewing different parallel programming paradigms as essential heterogeneous approaches in mapping ``real-world'' problems to parallel systems, we discuss methodologies in integrating multiple programming models on a Connection Machine CM5. In a dataflow based integration model built in a visualization software AVS, we demonstrate a simple, effective and modular way to couple sequential, data-parallel and explicit message-passing modules into an integrated programming environment on the CM5.


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