[ACM Press the 15th ACM SIGPLAN symposium - Bangalore, India (2010.01.09-2010.01.14)] Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming - PPoPP '10 - The pilot library for novice MPI programmers

✍ Scribed by Carter, John D.; Gardner, William B.; Grewal, Gary

• Book ID: 120995048
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 402 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1605587087
• DOI: 10.1145/1693453.1693509

✦ Synopsis

The Pilot library is a new method for programming MPI-enabled clusters in C, targeted at novice parallel programmers. Formal elements from Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) are used to realize a process/channel model of parallel computation that reduces opportunities for deadlock and other communication errors. This simple model, plus an application programming interface (API) styled after C's formatted I/O, are designed to make the library easy to learn. The Pilot library exists as a thin layer on top of any standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation, preserving MPI's portability and efficiency, with little performance overhead arising as result of Pilot's additional features.