The Multicomputer Toolbox: Current and Future Directions (1993)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference. IEEE Computer |
| Citations: | 6 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Skjellum93themulticomputer,
author = {Anthony Skjellum},
title = {The Multicomputer Toolbox: Current and Future Directions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference. IEEE Computer},
year = {1993},
pages = {94--103},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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Abstract
The Multicomputer Toolbox is a set of "firstgeneration " scalable parallel libraries. The Toolbox includes sparse, dense, direct and iterative linear algebra, a stiff ODE/DAE solver, and an open software technology for additional numerical algorithms. The Toolbox has an object-oriented design; C-based strategies for classes of distributed data structures (including distributed matrices and vectors) as well as uniform calling interfaces are defined. At a high level in the Toolbox, data-distributionindependence (DDI) support is provided. DDI is needed to build scalable libraries, so that applications do not have to redistribute data before calling libraries. Data-distribution-independent mapping functions implement this capability. Data-distribution-independent algorithms are sometimes more efficient than fixeddata -distribution counterparts, because redistribution of data can be avoided. Underlying the system is a "performance and portability layer," which includes interfaces to sequent...
