Software to support massively parallel computing on the MasPar MP-1

Author

Christy, Peter

Author_Institution

MasPar Comput. Corp., Sunnyvale, CA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

Feb. 26 1990-March 2 1990

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The software product set of the MasPar computer is examined, the key issues being the programming model, software philosophy, parallel virtuality, programming languages and their compilers, application porting and adaptation, and programming support. VLSI technology and massively parallel architecture are combined in the MP-1 to offer what would be considered supercomputer performance at a minicomputer price.<>

Keywords

parallel processing; systems software; MasPar MP-1; MasPar computer; VLSI technology; adaptation; application porting; compilers; massively parallel architecture; massively parallel computing; parallel virtuality; programming languages; programming model; programming support; software philosophy; software product set; supercomputer performance; support software; Application software; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Microcomputers; Parallel architectures; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Program processors; Supercomputers; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '90. Intellectual Leverage. Digest of Papers. Thirty-Fifth IEEE Computer Society International Conference.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2028-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1990.63650

Filename

63650