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A UPC Runtime System Based on MPI and POSIX Threads

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PDP '06: Proceedings of the 14th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing

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https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP.2006.16

Published: 15 February 2006 Publication History

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MuPC is a portable runtime system for Unified Parallel C (UPC). A modified version of the EDG C/C++ front end translates the user's UPC program into C and turns UPC-specific language features into calls to MuPC runtime functions. MuPC implements each UPC thread (process) as two Pthreads, one for the user program and private memory accesses, and the other for remote memory accesses. Remote memory is accessed by two-sided MPI message passing. MuPC performance features include a runtime software cache for remote accesses and low latency access to shared memory with affinity to the issuing thread. MuPC is a useful platform for experimenting with current and future UPC language features and investigating UPC performance. This paper describes the internal design of MuPC and compares its performance to several other available platforms.

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Alvanos MFarreras MTiotto EMartorell XNg JJacobsen HZou Y(2012)Automatic communication coalescing for irregular computations in UPC languageProceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research10.5555/2399776.2399796(220-234)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2399776.2399796
Berka THagenauer HVajteršic M(2011)Portable explicit threading and concurrent programming for MPI applicationsProceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics - Volume Part II10.1007/978-3-642-31500-8_9(81-90)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-31500-8_9
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A UPC Runtime System Based on MPI and POSIX Threads
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Parallel programming languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Communications management
        Memory management
        Distributed memory
        Process management
    2. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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PDP '06: Proceedings of the 14th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing

February 2006

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ISBN:076952513X

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