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Models and Languages for Parallel Computation by David B. Skillicorn; Domenico Talia is a Computer Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Models and Languages for Parallel Computation about?
We survey parallel programming models and languages using six criteria to assess their suitability for realistic portable parallel programming. We argue that an ideal model should by easy to program, should have a software development methodology, should be architecture-independent, should be easy to understand, should guarantee performance, and should provide accurate information about the cost of programs. These criteria reflect our belief that developments in parallelism must be driven by a parallel software industry based on portability and efficiency. We consider programming models in six categories, depending on the level of abstraction they provide. Those that are very abstract conceal even the presence of parallelism at the software level. Such models make software easy to build and port, but efficient and predictable performance is usually hard to achieve. At the other end of the spectrum, low-level models make all of the messy issues of parallel programming explicit (how many threads, how to place them, how to express communication, and how to schedule communication), so that software is hard to build and not very portable, but is usually efficient. Most recent models are
Who reads Models and Languages for Parallel Computation?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Computer Science.
- Author
- David B. Skillicorn; Domenico Talia
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Computer Science (Physical Sciences)