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In this paper, we present an approach to develop parallel applications based on aspect oriented programming. We propose a collection of aspects to implement group communication mechanisms on parallel applications. In our approach, parallelisation code is developed by composing the collection into the application core functionality. The approach requires fewer changes to sequential applications to parallelise the core functionality than current alternatives and yields more modular code. The paper presents the collection and shows how the aspects can be used to develop efficient parallel applications.
This work is supported by PPC-VM (Portable Parallel Computing based on Virtual Machines) project POSI/CHS/47158/2002, funded by Portuguese FCT (POSI) and by European funds (FEDER). Miguel P. Monteiro is partially supported by FCT under project SOFTAS (POSI/EIA/60189/2004).
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Sobral, J.L., Cunha, C.A., Monteiro, M.P. (2007). Aspect Oriented Pluggable Support for Parallel Computing. In: Daydé, M., Palma, J.M.L.M., Coutinho, Á.L.G.A., Pacitti, E., Lopes, J.C. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2006. VECPAR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_8
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