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International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe

PARLE 1994: PARLE'94 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe pp 745–748Cite as

NXLib — A parallel programming environment for workstation clusters

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Workstations provide an attractive platform to develop software. This paper describes the NXLib environment which enables users to use this platform to develop parallel applications. The source code compatibility of NXLib applications with Intel's Paragon multicomputer system easily allows to migrate these applications to a supercomputer. The performance which can be achieved with either platform is compared using two applications. In addition performance results of NXLib communication calls and comparisons with other widespread messagepassing libraries for workstation clusters are presented.

This project was partially funded by a research grant from the Intel Foundation.

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  1. Institut für Informatik Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation, Technische Universität München, D-80290, München

    Georg Stellner, Arndt Bode, Stefan Lamberts & Thomas Ludwig

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Costas Halatsis Dimitrios Maritsas George Philokyprou Sergios Theodoridis

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Stellner, G., Bode, A., Lamberts, S., Ludwig, T. (1994). NXLib — A parallel programming environment for workstation clusters. In: Halatsis, C., Maritsas, D., Philokyprou, G., Theodoridis, S. (eds) PARLE'94 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 817. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58184-7_147

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