%0 Journal Article %1 1359705 %A Bonachea, Dan %A Duell, Jason %D 2004 %I Inderscience Publishers %J International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking %K Concurrency MPI Messaging MultiLanguage Support compilation language target %N 1-3 %P 91--99 %R 10.1504/IJHPCN.2004.007569 %T Problems with using MPI 1.1 and 2.0 as compilation targets for parallel language implementations %U http://upc.lbl.gov/publications/bonachea-duell-mpi.pdf %V 1 %X MPI support is nearly ubiquitous on high-performance systems today and is generally highly tuned for performance. It would thus seem to offer a convenient 'portable network assembly language' to developers of parallel programming languages who wish to target different network architectures. Unfortunately, neither the traditional MPI 1.1 API nor the newer MPI 2.0 extensions for one-sided communication provide an adequate compilation target for global address space languages, and this is likely to be the case for many other parallel languages as well. Simulating one-sided communication under the MPI 1.1 API is too expensive, while the MPI 2.0 one-sided API imposes a number of significant restrictions on memory access patterns that would need to be incorporated at the language level, as a compiler cannot effectively hide them given current conflict and alias detection algorithms.

@article{1359705, abstract = {MPI support is nearly ubiquitous on high-performance systems today and is generally highly tuned for performance. It would thus seem to offer a convenient 'portable network assembly language' to developers of parallel programming languages who wish to target different network architectures. Unfortunately, neither the traditional MPI 1.1 API nor the newer MPI 2.0 extensions for one-sided communication provide an adequate compilation target for global address space languages, and this is likely to be the case for many other parallel languages as well. Simulating one-sided communication under the MPI 1.1 API is too expensive, while the MPI 2.0 one-sided API imposes a number of significant restrictions on memory access patterns that would need to be incorporated at the language level, as a compiler cannot effectively hide them given current conflict and alias detection algorithms.}, added-at = {2010-09-27T18:06:21.000+0200}, author = {Bonachea, Dan and Duell, Jason}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218a71d97cfa16c7de5a52515fd63d5f9/gron}, description = {Problems with using MPI 1.1 and 2.0 as compilation targets for parallel language implementations}, doi = {10.1504/IJHPCN.2004.007569}, interhash = {4fd32381270ea6a6056c8768b82403a5}, intrahash = {18a71d97cfa16c7de5a52515fd63d5f9}, issn = {1740-0562}, journal = {International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking}, keywords = {Concurrency MPI Messaging MultiLanguage Support compilation language target}, number = {1-3}, pages = {91--99}, publisher = {Inderscience Publishers}, timestamp = {2014-07-07T10:47:21.000+0200}, title = {Problems with using MPI 1.1 and 2.0 as compilation targets for parallel language implementations}, url = {http://upc.lbl.gov/publications/bonachea-duell-mpi.pdf}, volume = 1, year = 2004 }