Input/Output Intensive Massively Parallel Computing: Language Support, Automatic Parallelization, Advanced Optimization, and Runtime Systems

✍ Scribed by Peter Brezany (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1220
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Massively parallel processing is currently the most promising answer to the quest for increased computer performance. This has resulted in the development of new programming languages and programming environments and has stimulated the design and production of massively parallel supercomputers. The efficiency of concurrent computation and input/output essentially depends on the proper utilization of specific architectural features of the underlying hardware. This book focuses on development of runtime systems supporting execution of parallel code and on supercompilers automatically parallelizing code written in a sequential language. Fortran has been chosen for the presentation of the material because of its dominant role in high-performance programming for scientific and engineering applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-12
Parallel programming models....Pages 13-24
Vienna Fortran 90 and its extensions for parallel I/O....Pages 25-74
Compiling in-core programs....Pages 75-168
Compiling parallel I/O operations....Pages 169-181
Compiling out-of-core programs....Pages 183-233
Runtime system for parallel input-output....Pages 235-256
A new generation programming environment for parallel architectures....Pages 257-266

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques; Numerical Analysis; Computer Communication Networks; Operating Systems