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Syracuse University

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

1995

HPCC

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High Performance Fortran And Possible Extensions To Support Conjugate Gradient Algorithms, K. Dincer, Ken Hawick, Alok Choudhary, Geoffrey C. Fox Jan 1995

High Performance Fortran And Possible Extensions To Support Conjugate Gradient Algorithms, K. Dincer, Ken Hawick, Alok Choudhary, Geoffrey C. Fox

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

We evaluate the High-Performance Fortran (HPF) language for the compact expression and efficient implementation of conjugate gradient iterative matrix-solvers on High Performance Computing and Communications(HPCC) platforms. We discuss the use of intrinsic functions, data distribution directives and explicitly parallel constructs to optimize performance by minimizing communications requirements in a portable manner. We focus on implementations using the existing HPF definitions but also discuss issues arising that may influence a revised definition for HPF-2. Some of the codes discussed are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.npac.syr.edu/hpfa/ alongwith other educational and discussion material related to applications in HPF.


A Multithreaded Message Passing Environment For Atm Lan/Wan, Rajesh Yadav, Rajashekar Reddy, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey C. Fox Jan 1995

A Multithreaded Message Passing Environment For Atm Lan/Wan, Rajesh Yadav, Rajashekar Reddy, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey C. Fox

Northeast Parallel Architecture Center

Large scale High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) applications (e.g. Video-on-Demand, and HPDC) would require storage and processing capabilities which are beyond existing single computer systems. The current advances in networking technology (e.g. ATM) have made high performance network computing an attractive computing environment for such applications. However, using only high speed network is not sufficient to achieve high performance distributed computing environment unless some hardware and software problems have been resolved. These problems include the limited communication bandwidth available to the application, high overhead associated with context switching, redundant data copying during protocol processing and lack of support to …