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A. Malony, B. Mohr, P. Beckman, D. Gannon, S. Yang, F. Bodin, Performance Analysis of pC++: A Portable Data-Parallel Programming System for Scalable Parallel Computers, Proceedings of the 8th International Parallel Processing Symbosium (IPPS), Cancún, Mexico, April 1994, pp. 75-85.

Keywords: parallel C++, portability, scalability, SPMD, runtime system,concurrency and communication primitives, performance

pC++ is a language extension to C++ designed to allow programmers to compose distributed data structures with parallel execution semantics. These data structures are organized as ``concurrent aggregate'' collection classes which can be aligned and distributed over the memory hierarchy of a parallel machine in a manner consistent with the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPF) directives for Fortran 90. pC++ allows the user to write portable and efficient code which will run on a wide range of scalable parallel computers.

In this paper, we discuss the performance analysis of the pC++ programming system. We describe the performance tools developed and include scalability measurements for four benchmark programs: a "nearest neighbor" grid computation, a fast Poisson solver, and the "Embar" and "Sparse" codes from the NAS suite. In addition to speedup numbers, we present a detailed analysis highlighting performance issues at the language, runtime system, and target system levels.

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