To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), June 1999.
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Abstract:
A key issue for parallel systems is the development of useful programming abstractions that can coexist with good performance. We describe a communication library that supports an object-based abstraction with a bulk-synchronous communication style; this is the first time such a library has been proposed and implemented. By restricting the library to the exclusive use of barrier synchronization, we are able to design a simple and easy-to-use object system. By exploiting established techniques based on the bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) model, we are able to design algorithms and library implementations that work well across platforms.
@inproceedings {GoudreauSpaa99,
author = "M.Goudreau, K. Lang, G. Narlikar and S. Rao",
title = "BOS is Boss: A Case for Bulk-Synchronous Object Systems",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual ACM Symposium on
Parallel Algorithms and Architectures",
year = 1999,
month = "June"
}