Data management and control-flow constructs in a SIMD/SPMD parallel language/compiler

Author

Nichols, Mark A. ; Siegel, Howard Jay ; Dietz, Henry G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

8-10 Oct 1990

Firstpage

397

Lastpage

406

Abstract

Features of an explicitly parallel language targeted for reconfigurable massively parallel processing systems capable of operating in the SIMD (single-instruction-stream, multiple-data-stream) and SPMD (single-program, multiple-data-stream) modes of parallelism are presented (SPMD is a subset of MIMD (multiple-instruction stream, multiple-data stream)). All aspects of the language have been provided with an SIMD-mode version and an SPMD-mode version that are functionally equivalent. The language facilitates experimentation with and exploitation of massively parallel SIMD/SPMD machines. Aspects of data management (variable specification, data manipulation operations, etc.) and control-flow constructs (data dependent and processor address dependent) are examined

Keywords

parallel languages; SIMD; SPMD; control-flow constructs; data dependent; data management; data manipulation operations; explicitly parallel language; massively parallel processing systems; parallelism; processor address dependent; single-instruction-stream, multiple-data-stream; single-program, multiple-data-stream; variable specification; Broadcasting; Concurrent computing; Counting circuits; High performance computing; Laboratories; Oceans; Parallel languages; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, 1990. Proceedings., 3rd Symposium on the

Conference_Location

College Park, MD

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FMPC.1990.89490

Filename

89490