Efficient Implementation of high-level parallel programs

Implementation of a Portable Nested Data-Parallel Language

“…A common approach has been to add data-parallel operations to existing languages, as exemplified by the High Performance Fortran (HPF) effort [33] and various extensions to C (such as C* [49,47], UC [5], and C** [381). Such data-parallel extensions offer fine-grained parallelism and a simple programming model, while permitting efficient implementation on SIMD, MIMD, and vector machines.…”

Implementation of a Portable Nested Data-Parallel Language

“…Numerous fiat data-parallel languages have been proposed for portable parallel programming, such as C* [49], MPP-Pascal (7], *Lisp [39], UC [5], and Fortran 90 [2]. Section 2 explained some of the expressibility and efficiency limitations imposed by fiat languages; these problems are also discussed elsewhere [10,11,29,32,54].…”

“…The high cost of rewriting parallel code has resulted in significant effort directed toward developing bighlevel languages that are efficiently portable among parallel and vector supercomputers. A common approach has been to add data-parallel operations to existing languages, as exemplified by the High Performance Fortran (HPF) effort [33] and various extensions to C (such as C* [49,47], UC [5], and C** [381). Such data-parallel extensions offer fine-grained parallelism and a simple programming model, while permitting efficient implementation on SIMD, MIMD, and vector machines.…”

UC: a language for the connection machine

“…Issues related to programmer-specified mappings are addressed briefly. A complete description on the specification, implementation and effectiveness of data mappings may be found in [2]. The next section describes related work.…”