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By abstract communication objects called ports and channels it possible to build the client-server connection as well as peer-to-peer parallel relations. By mapping application processes onto computational nodes both data parallelism and functional parallelism can be exploited. These two paradigms can be even mixed in one application.
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The multithreaded support is based on a user-level thread package, thus TCE can be easily ported to different processors. Different architecture are supported :
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clusters of heterogenous workstations -- through ports and channels
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shared memory parallel machines -- through multithreading
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distributed memory parallel machines -- through ports and channels
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The differences in data formats (byte ordering) is taken care of internally by the library. Machine specific IPC operations are masked through higher level operations on channels and ports.
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