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Foil 11 Approaches to Parallel Programming

From Master Set for Parallel Programming for Laplace's Equation CPS615 Spring Semester 00 -- February 00. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Data Parallel typified by CMFortran and its generalization - High Performance Fortran which in previous years we discussed in detail but this year we will only discuss at high level
  • Typical Data Parallel Fortran Statements are full array statements
  • B=A1 + A2
  • B=EOSHIFT(A,-1)
  • Function operations on arrays representing full data domain
2 Message Passing typified by later discussion of Laplace Example, which specifies specific machine actions i.e. send a message between nodes whereas data parallel model is at higher level as it (tries) to specify a problem feature
3 Note: We are always using "data parallelism" at problem level whether software is "message passing" or "data parallel"
4 Data parallel software is translated by a compiler into "machine language" which is typically message passing on a distributed memory machine and threads on a shared memory

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