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Remote Memory Access Programming in MPI-3

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Torsten Hoefler,

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ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), Volume 2, Issue 2

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/2780584

Published: 29 June 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) 3.0 standard, introduced in September 2012, includes a significant update to the one-sided communication interface, also known as remote memory access (RMA). In particular, the interface has been extended to better support popular one-sided and global-address-space parallel programming models to provide better access to hardware performance features and enable new data-access modes. We present the new RMA interface and specify formal axiomatic models for data consistency and access semantics. Such models can help users reason about details of the semantics that are hard to extract from the English prose in the standard. It also fosters the development of tools and compilers, enabling them to automatically analyze, optimize, and debug RMA programs.

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Remote Memory Access Programming in MPI-3
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
        Parallel programming languages

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Published: 29 June 2015

Accepted: 01 December 2014

Received: 01 March 2013

Published in TOPC Volume 2, Issue 2

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