The Multicomputer Toolbox - First-Generation Scalable Libraries (1993)
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@MISC{Skjellum93themulticomputer,
author = {Anthony Skjellum and Alvin P. Leung and Steven G. Smith and Robert D. Falgout and Charles H. Still and Chuck H. Baldwin},
title = {The Multicomputer Toolbox - First-Generation Scalable Libraries},
year = {1993}
}
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Abstract
"First-generation" scalable parallel libraries have been achieved, and are maturing, within the Multicomputer Toolbox. The Toolbox includes sparse, dense, iterative linear algebra, a stiff ODE/DAE solver, and an open software technology for additional numerical algorithms, plus an inter-architecture Makefile mechanism for building applications. We have devised C-based strategies for useful classes of distributed data structures, including distributed matrices and vectors. The underlying Zipcodemessage passing system has enabled process-grid abstractions of multicomputers, communication contexts, and process groups, all characteristics needed for building scalable libraries, and scalable application software. We describe the data-distribution-independent approach to building scalable libraries, which is needed so that applications do not unnecessarily have to redistribute data at high expense. We discuss the strategy used for implementing data-distribution mappings. We also describe hig...
