{"title":"Scalable libraries in a heterogeneous environment","authors":"A. Skjellum","doi":"10.1109/HPDC.1993.263862","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns itself with efforts to extend multicomputer libraries to a hierarchical, heterogeneous network environment. Two classes of support for such libraries are discussed: first, the message-passing features needed to establish groups of communicating processes, and communication contexts within which libraries can safely work. Second, it discusses message-passing primitives that encapsulate heterogeneity, hiding it from the user program (and library alike), and eliminating it when it proves unnecessary (within a homogeneous invocation, for instance). The multicomputer toolbox first-generation scalable libraries, and zipcode message-passing systems are the means by which the author demonstrates his research, so they are discussed. He relates zipcode syntax and semantics to the emerging MPI standard, when appropriate.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":226280,"journal":{"name":"[1993] Proceedings The 2nd International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1993] Proceedings The 2nd International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPDC.1993.263862","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper concerns itself with efforts to extend multicomputer libraries to a hierarchical, heterogeneous network environment. Two classes of support for such libraries are discussed: first, the message-passing features needed to establish groups of communicating processes, and communication contexts within which libraries can safely work. Second, it discusses message-passing primitives that encapsulate heterogeneity, hiding it from the user program (and library alike), and eliminating it when it proves unnecessary (within a homogeneous invocation, for instance). The multicomputer toolbox first-generation scalable libraries, and zipcode message-passing systems are the means by which the author demonstrates his research, so they are discussed. He relates zipcode syntax and semantics to the emerging MPI standard, when appropriate.<>