A generic fine-grained parallel C

Author

Hamet, L. ; Dorband, J.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

10-12 Oct 1988

Firstpage

625

Lastpage

628

Abstract

The parallel C compiler, a common language interface to multiple types of machines, is described. This language is based on the belief that an algorithm designed around fine-grained parallelism can be mapped relatively easily to different parallel architectures, since a large percentage of the parallelism has been identified. The compiler generates a FORTH-like machine-independent intermediate code. A machine-dependent translator resides on each machine to generate the appropriate executable code, taking advantage of the particular architectures. The goal for this project is to allow a user to run the same program on such machines as the massively parallel processor, the CRAY, the Connection Machine, and the CYBER 205, as well as serial machines such as VAXs, Macintoshes and Sun workstations

Keywords

C language; parallel programming; program compilers; CRAY; CYBER 205; Connection Machine; FORTH-like machine-independent intermediate code; Macintoshes; Sun workstations; VAXs; common language interface; compiler; executable code; generic fine-grained parallel C; machine-dependent translator; parallel architectures; Algorithm design and analysis; Assembly; NASA; Parallel architectures; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Process control; Programming profession; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1988. Proceedings., 2nd Symposium on the Frontiers of

Conference_Location

Fairfax, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5892-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FMPC.1988.47506

Filename

47506