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CHAOS is a very flexible library for runtime support of irregular problems, yet unfortunately, its original implementation is not applicable to parallel programs which are running under MPI. This paper presents details of porting CHAOS to MPI. The most important feature of the new improved version consists in separate MPI communicators: for internal CHAOS use and for an application program. The code of the library was carefully revised and now it is ANSI C compliant. Porting CHAOS to MPI allows for a much wider usability of this library as now it may be applied on virtually every parallel computer.
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Bubak, M., łuszczek, P., Wierzbowska, A. (1998). Porting CHAOS library to MPI. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056568
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