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Titanium

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Titanium is a parallel programming language designed for high-performance scientific computing. It is based on JavaTM and uses a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) parallelism model with a Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS).

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Titanium is an explicitly parallel dialect of JavaTM designed for high-performance scientific programming [14,  15]. The Titanium project started in 1995, at a time when custom supercomputers were losing market share to PC clusters. The motivation was to create a language design and implementation that would enable portable programming for a wide range of parallel platforms by striking an appropriate balance between expressiveness, user-provided information about concurrency and memory locality, and compiler and runtime support for parallelism. The goal was to design a language that could be used for high performance on some of the most challenging applications, such as those with adaptivity in time and space, unpredictable...

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  1. Electrical Engineering and Computers Sciences, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Katherine Yelick, Susan L. Graham, Paul Hilfinger, Dan Bonachea, Jimmy Su, Amir Kamil, Kaushik Datta, Phillip Colella & Tong Wen

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Yelick, K. et al. (2011). Titanium. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_516

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