Asset description file for Global Arrays


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BIDM.Asset.Abstract The Global Array (GA) toolkit provides an efficient and portable shared-memory programming interface for distributed-memory computers. Each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit cooperation by other processes. Unlike other shared-memory environments, the GA model exposes to the programmer the Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) characteristics of the High Performance Computers and acknowledges that access to remote data is slower than to local data. META
BIDM.Asset.ContactIs.Organization http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/ptlib/objects/Organization/jaroslaw_nieplocha.html LINK
BIDM.Asset.DateOfInformation Fri Oct 30 13:08:54 1998 META
BIDM.Asset.Domain Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Programming Libraries META
BIDM.Asset.Keyword virtual shared memory; MIMD machine; nonuniform memory access; distributed array; execution trace visualization; parallel programming library META
BIDM.Asset.Name Global Arrays META
BIDM.Asset.RecordMaintainedBy.Organization http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/ptlib/objects/Organization/ptlib_maintainers.html LINK
BIDM.Asset.TargetEnvironment Distributed-memory MPP: IBM SP-1, SP-2, SP ; CRAY T3D and T3E; Intel IPSC/860, Delta, Paragon; Fujitsu VPP-700, VX-4; NEC Cenju Shared-memory systems: KSR-1/2; CONVEX SPP-1200; SGI PowerChallenge and Origin-2000 Networks of workstations (including clusters of SMPs): SUN (SunOS and Solaris); SGI (32- and 64-bit); IBM RS/6000 ; DEC Alpha ; PC under Linux ; PC under Windows NT with Fast Messages (HPVM Project, University of Illinois) In addition, research/prototype implementations have been developed for: Intel Paragon running Sunmos with Active Messages; metacomputing environments META
BIDM.Asset.TitleLine provides an efficient and portable shared-memory programming interface for distributed-memory computers META
BIDM.Asset.Version 2.4 META
BIDM.Asset.Webpage http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/global/ga.html META