Software Support for Portable Parallel Computing

这个项目解决了编写清晰、可移植和高效的并行程序的问题。解决这个问题的三种常见方法是并行编译器、非常高级语言和命令式语言或具有单一通信模型的软件系统。该项目将开发一个通用的编程抽象基础和底层软件，简化并支持所有这些方法。该研究的核心部分是filament包，它支持在碎片和分布式内存多处理器上有效执行细粒度并行和共享通信。这个项目要研究的具体主题是：1)扩展和改进filament包，2)设计和实现MIF，这是一个多范式的编译器中间，它将独立于语言和体系结构；3)设计并实现了一种简单高效的编程语言HPSR （high performance SR）。filament和MIF解决了可移植性和效率的问题，独立于用于编写并行程序的语言，而HPSR解决了程序清晰度的问题。＊＊＊

9415303 Andrews The project addresses the problem of writing parallel programs that are clear, portable, and efficient. The three common approaches to this problem are parallelizing compiler, very high- level languages and imperative languages or software systems with a single communication model. This project will develop a common base of programming abstractions and underlying software that simplifies as well as supports all of these approaches. The center piece of the research is the Filaments package, which supports efficient execution of fine-grain parallelism and a shared communication on both shred and distributed memory multiprocessors. The specific topics to be investigated by this project are: 1) expanding and refining Filaments package, 2) designing and implementing MIF, a multi-paradigm intermediate for compilers that will be both language and architecture independent; and 3) designing and implementing a simple and efficient programming language HPSR (high performance SR). Filaments and MIF address the problems of portability and efficiency, independent of the language used to write parallel programs, and HPSR addresses the problem of program clarity. ***