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Foil 95 Programming Experience between PVM and TreadMarks - Generalisations.

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 It is easier to program using TreadMarks than using MP.
2 Although there is little difference in programmability for simple programs, for those with complicated communication patterns, such as 3-D FFT, it takes more effort to figure out what to send and whom to send it to.
3 Results show that the use of release consistency and the multiple-writer protocol, TreadMarks can performs comparably with MP on a variety of problems.
4 The separation of synchronisation and data transfer and the request-response nature of data communication in TreadMarks is responsible for lower performance for all the TreadMarks programs.

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