Asset description file for Nexus


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BIDM.Asset.Abstract Nexus is a portable library providing the multithreading, communication, and resource management facilities required to implement advanced languages, libraries, and applications in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing environments. Its interface provides multiple threads of control, dynamic processor acquisition, dynamic address space creation, a global memory model via interprocessor references, and asynchronous events. Its implementation supports multiple communication protocols and resource characterization mechanisms that allow automatic selection of optimal protocols. Nexus is intended for use by compiler writers and library developers, rather than application programmers. Nexus is now part of the Globus toolkit and is distributed as such. META
BIDM.Asset.ContactIs.Organization http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/ptlib/objects/Organization/nexus_help.html LINK
BIDM.Asset.DateOfInformation Fri Oct 30 13:20:22 1998 META
BIDM.Asset.Domain Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Runtime Systems META
BIDM.Asset.Keyword parallel runtime system; task parallelism; data parallelism META
BIDM.Asset.Name Nexus META
BIDM.Asset.RecordMaintainedBy.Organization http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/ptlib/objects/Organization/ptlib_maintainers.html LINK
BIDM.Asset.TargetEnvironment Nexus has been tested on the follow architectures: Solaris 2.5.1, SunOS 4.1.4, SGI IRIX 6.2, IBM AIX 3.2.5, IBM AIX 4.x, DEC Unix 4.0, IBM SP (AIX4 & AIX3, --without-threads only), Intel Paragon (--target=i860-intel-osf1, --without-threads only). META
BIDM.Asset.TitleLine Nexus services provide direct support for light-weight threading, address space management, communication, and synchronization META
BIDM.Asset.Webpage http://www.mcs.anl.gov/nexus/ META