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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


It is easier to program using TreadMarks than using MP.
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.
Results show that the use of release consistency and the multiple-writer protocol, TreadMarks can performs comparably with MP on a variety of problems.
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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