Planned Direct Transfers: a programming model for real-time applications

Author

Vichniac, Gerard ; Isenstein, Barry ; Lund, Craig ; Pool, Arlan

fYear

1996

fDate

15-19 Apr 1996

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

505

Abstract

This paper presents the “Planned Direct Transfer” programming model, developed by Mercury Computer Systems to meet the requirements of embedded high-performance computing applications. In this model, data transfers are “Planned” before they occur, resulting in low software overhead execution; they are also “Direct”-they do not require intermediate data copying. This paper locates the Planned Direct Transfer (PDT) model in the landscape of the standard approaches of shared memory and message passing

Keywords

data handling; message passing; parallel programming; real-time systems; shared memory systems; software performance evaluation; Mercury Computer Systems; Planned Direct Transfer; data copying; data transfers; embedded high-performance computing; low software overhead execution; message passing; parallel programming; real-time applications; shared memory systems; system requirements; Actuators; Application software; Computer applications; Computer architecture; Digital signal processing; Embedded computing; Fabrics; Hardware; Message passing; Real time systems; Sensor systems and applications; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of IPPS '96, The 10th International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1996.508102

Filename

508102