HyperC: portable parallel programming in C

Author

Clermont, Philippe ; Paris, Nicolas

Author_Institution

HyperParallel Technol., Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France

fYear

1994

fDate

26-29 Apr 1994

Firstpage

682

Lastpage

687

Abstract

We introduce the HyperC language, a data parallel extension of C intended for portability over a wide range of architectures. We present the main topics of the language: the explicit parallelism through the data, the synchronous semantics and the parallel flow control that allows asynchronous execution, new function qualifiers to emphasize locality properties code and, finally, new communication techniques to allow overlap of communications and computations even for irregular computations. All these features are discussed with respect to portability and code reusability issues

Keywords

C language; parallel languages; parallel programming; software portability; software reusability; C; HyperC; asynchronous execution; code reusability; communication techniques; explicit parallelism; irregular computations; locality properties code; parallel flow control; portable parallel programming; synchronous semantics; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data flow computing; Equations; Hardware; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Eighth International

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5602-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1994.288230

Filename

288230