Distributed objects for parallel numerical applications

Francoise Baude; Denis Caromel; David Sagnol

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique (2002)

  • Volume: 36, Issue: 5, page 837-861
  • ISSN: 0764-583X

Abstract

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The C++// language (pronounced C++ parallel) was designed and implemented with the aim of importing reusability into parallel and concurrent programming, in the framework of a mimd model. From a reduced set of rather simple primitives, comprehensive and versatile libraries are defined. In the absence of any syntactical extension, the C++// user writes standard C++ code. The libraries are themselves extensible by the final users, making C++// an open system. Two specific techniques to improve performances of a distributed object language such as C++// are then presented: Shared-on-Read and Overlapping of Communication and Computation. The appliance of those techniques is guided by the programmer at a very high-level of abstraction, so the additional work to yield those good performance improvements is kept to the minimum.

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Baude, Francoise, Caromel, Denis, and Sagnol, David. "Distributed objects for parallel numerical applications." ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique 36.5 (2002): 837-861. <http://eudml.org/doc/246084>.

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