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Introducing OpenSHMEM: SHMEM for the PGAS community

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Barbara Chapman,

Swaroop Pophale,

Lauren SmithAuthors Info & Claims

PGAS '10: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Partitioned Global Address Space Programming Model

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/2020373.2020375

Published: 12 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The OpenSHMEM community would like to announce a new effort to standardize SHMEM, a communications library that uses one-sided communication and utilizes a partitioned global address space.

OpenSHMEM is an effort to bring together a variety of SHMEM and SHMEM-like implementations into an open standard using a community-driven model. By creating an open-source specification and reference implementation of OpenSHMEM, there will be a wider availability of a PGAS library model on current and future architectures. In addition, the availability of an OpenSHMEM model will enable the development of performance and validation tools.

We propose an OpenSHMEM specification to help tie together a number of divergent implementations of SHMEM that are currently available.

To support an existing and growing user community, we will develop the OpenSHMEM web presence, including a community wiki and training material, and face-to-face interaction, including workshops and conference participation.

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Index Terms

Introducing OpenSHMEM: SHMEM for the PGAS community
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Validation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Empirical software validation
      2. Process validation
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers
      1. Runtime environments
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages
        Distributed programming languages
        Parallel programming languages

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PGAS '10: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Partitioned Global Address Space Programming Model

October 2010

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ISBN:9781450304610

DOI:10.1145/2020373

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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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