Semi-structured portable library for multiprocessor servers

Author

Tsilikas, Georgios ; Fleury, Martin

Author_Institution

Multimedia Architectures Lab., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

2003

Abstract

The MiPPS library supports a hybrid model of parallel programming. The library is targeted at commodity multiprocessors, with support for clusters. The implementation of the concurrency routines reveals discrepancies between popular operating systems. Tests on suitable applications also reveal similar discrepancies in performance across different multiprocessors. The MiPPS library has also been the basis of a parallelization of the Active Chart Parsing algorithm for speech understanding.

Keywords

C++ language; distributed shared memory systems; operating systems (computers); parallel algorithms; parallel programming; software libraries; software performance evaluation; software portability; speech processing; Active Chart Parsing algorithm; C++ programming language; MiPPS library; clusters; commodity multiprocessors; concurrency routines; distributed shared memory models; hybrid model; multiprocessor servers; operating systems; parallel algorithm; parallel programming; performance; portable software library; semi-structured portable library; speech understanding; Application software; Data structures; Hidden Markov models; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Parallel programming; Software algorithms; Software libraries; Speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. International

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1926-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2003.1213421

Filename

1213421