Global Arrays-FM: Global Arrays Interface on Fast Messages
Global Arrays-FM is a high performance implementation of the Global
Arrays interface for clusters. Global Arrays is a portable high performance
computing API which supports abstractions for global arrays, data movement
betwixt global arrays and local arrays, and synchronization across nodes.
Thus, it is a complete parallel library for writing single-program multiple-data
(SPMD) programs. It is particularly useful for computations which share
a global data set, and decompose nicely into tiles or blocks of work. The
global arrays interface was developed by Jarek Nieplocha, and our implementation
is a port of his implementation atop the Fast
Messages interface and other HPVM software.
Platforms
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Computers: x86 PC's (uni- or multiprocessor)
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Networks: Myrinet or Winsock 2 (100 Mbit Ethernet)
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Operating Systems: Windows NT, Linux
Release History
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Global Arrays-FM 1.0 released as part of HPVM 1.0 (August 1997)
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Primary contributors include Louis
Giannini and Andrew Chien
(of course the GA system is primarily the work of Jarek Nieplocha).
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