EPS: a parallel execution environment

Author

Mirza, Misbah U. ; Yakoob, Siyal M. ; Theaker, Colin J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Quaid-i-Azam Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

203

Abstract

Parallel computers have the ability to enhance the computing performance of large applications economically. The difficulty lies in providing a suitable execution environment in which parallel applications can be executed. The paper examines important characteristics of a suitable environment for a parallel computer (the EPS). This environment supports the execution of parallel applications by providing suitable parallelizing primitives and is flexible in that programmers can choose the optimum granularity of parallelism for their applications. The paper also discusses the implementation of this environment

Keywords

multiprocessing programs; parallel machines; parallel programming; shared memory systems; EPS; Experimental Parallel System; large applications; optimum granularity; parallel execution environment; parallelizing primitives; Animation; Application software; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Environmental economics; Graphics; Large-scale systems; Packaging machines; Parallel processing; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526046

Filename

526046