Title :
Parallel processing on supercomputers: a set of computational experiments
Author :
Balram, N. ; Belo, C. ; Moura, J.M.F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The three types of parallelism currently available on the Cray are considered, namely, vectorization, microtasking, and macrotasking. Experiences with all three constructs are presented to show the improvements possible with each of them. While a particular machine, the Cray X-MP/48, has been used, many of the observations, comments, and conclusions derived can be generalized to other shared-memory multiprocessor systems
Keywords :
parallel processing; performance evaluation; Cray; X-MP/48; computational experiments; macrotasking; microtasking; parallel processing; shared-memory multiprocessor systems; supercomputers; vectorization; Arithmetic; Clocks; Concurrent computing; Hardware; Multiprocessing systems; Multitasking; Parallel processing; Program processors; Programming profession; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '88. [Vol.1]., Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0882-X
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1988.44660
