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XPRAM model and programming interface

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PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1992)

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The widespread use of parallel hardware is partly held back by the lack of a unifying model of parallel computation with predictable performance. Valiant's Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model has been proposed as one candidate to fill this gap [2] on a general class of distributed memory MIMD machines. A practical demonstration of this approach has been shown by May [1]. We build on Valiant's work to specify an XPRAM programming model and interface. Care has been taken to ensure that the interface is scalable on a general class of MIMD computers that support a combining network [4].

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  1. D.May: Transputers and Routers: Components for Concurrent Machines. INMOS Report, April 1990.

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  1. School of Computer Studies, The University Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    J. M. Nash & P. M. Dew

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Daniel Etiemble Jean-Claude Syre

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Nash, J.M., Dew, P.M. (1992). XPRAM model and programming interface. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_152

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