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Implementing a Parallel C++ Runtime System for
Scalable Parallel Systems
Abstract:
pC++ is a language extension to C++ designed to allow programmers to
compose ``concurrent aggregate'' collection classes which can be aligned
and distributed over the memory hierarchy of a parallel machine in a manner
modeled on the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF) directives for Fortran 90.
pC++ allows the user to write portable and efficient code which will run on
a wide range of scalable parallel computer systems.
The first version of the compiler is a preprocessor which generates Single
Program Multiple Data (SPMD) C++ code.
Currently, it runs on the Thinking Machines CM-5, the Intel Paragon, the BBN
TC2000, the Kendall Square Research KSR-1, and the Sequent Symmetry.
In this paper we describe the implementation of the runtime
system, which provides the concurrency and communication primitives between
objects in a distributed collection.
To illustrate the behavior of the runtime system
we include a description and performance results on four benchmark
programs.