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I proposed the SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data) model, in January 19841, as a means for enabling parallel execution of applications on multiprocessors, and in particular for highly parallel machines like the RP3 (the IBM Research Parallel Processor Prototype2). This talk will provide a review of the origins of the SPMD, it’s early use in enabling parallel execution of scientific applications and it’s implementation in one of the first3 parallel programming environments. In fact [3] was the first programming environment that implemented the SPMD model; other environments in the 1985 timeframe were based on the fork-and-join (F&J) model.
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Darema, F. (2001). The SPMD Model: Past, Present and Future. In: Cotronis, Y., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_1
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