Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: ltliu@midnight.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Lok Tin Liu)
Subject: Re: active messages/global memory in MPI(-2?)
Keywords: active messages, global memory, libraries
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: 27 Jun 1995 05:48:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3so644$p6d@agate.berkeley.edu>



>>    I am working on parallelizing a program whose data transfers
>> are most naturally described by a global (shared) memory model.
>> However, I will be doing this on distributed-memory machines.
>>
>>    I would like to use MPI (should I be using PVM?), since the
>> alternative seems to be to re-port the code to every new
>> parallel machine that comes along.
>>
>>    The (to me) obvious way to handle the data transmission
>> in the code would be to use remote store, remote add-to-memory,
>> and/or remote fetch operations.

You may want to take a look at the Split-C and the Active Messages homepages:

  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/parallel/castle/split-c
  http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/AM/active_messages.html






