A high level SPMD programming model: HPspmd
and its Java language binding

Guansong Zhang, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox
Xinying Li, Yuhong Wen

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Abstract:

This report introduces a new language, HPJava, for parallel programming on message passing systems. The language is designed in a high level SPMD programming model. From examples and performance in its Java binding, the features of the new programming style, and its implementation are shown.

• Keywords
• Introduction
• Java language Binding
  • Basic concepts
    • Process group
    • Distributed dimension and index with position
    • Subgroup and Subrange
    • Structured SPMD programming
  • Global variables
    • Data descriptor and global data
    • Array section and type signature
  • Program execution control
  • Communication library functions
• Programming examples
• Project in progress
• Summary
• References
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