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Current parallel programming models as message passing exploit properly coarse-grain parallelism and suit well for regular applications. However, many applications have irregular behaviour and fine-grain parallelism, in which cases multithreading is more suitable. Multiprocessing and clustering have became cost-effective manner to build distributed-memory parallel machines due to technological progress. This paper discusses Athapascan, a multithreaded, portable, parallel programming runtime system, targeted for irregular applications. It is designed to integrate multithreading and communication, taking profit of both multiprocessing and communicating networks.
On leave from UFRGS-Informatica, Brazil, CAPES-COFECUB fellow.
On leave from UFSM-DELC, Brazil, CAPES-COFECUB fellow.
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Carissimi, A., Pasin, M. (1998). Athapascan: An experience on mixing MPI communications and threads. 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/BFb0056569
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