Nexus

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.

DateOfInformation

Thr Apr 3 12:28:40 1997

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Runtime Systems

Keyword

parallel runtime system; task parallelism; data parallelism

Name

Nexus

TargetEnvironment

Any IP-based Unix system and most MPPs (including PCA, 02000, SP2, and Paragon)

Webpage

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/nexus/index.html

ContactIs

Nexus Help