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We present the architecture of a parallel programming system, the di_pSystem. Our target machine consists of clusters of multiprocessors interconnected with very fast networks.
The system aims to provide a programming style close to the shared memory programming model. This is achieved by a software layer between the programmer and the operating system that supports the communication between individual computational agents and that dynamically balances the work-load in the system. This layer effectively hides much of the complexity of programming distributed architectures from the programmer while being competitive in performance.
The low-level communication in the di pSystem is implemented using MPI as a backbone. Initial results indicate that the system is close in performance to MPI, a fact that we attribute to its ability to dynamically balance the work-load in the computations.
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Silva, F., Paulino, H., Lopes, L. (1999). di_pSystem: A Parallel Programming System for Distributed Memory Architectures. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_65
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