Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: d3h325@maddog.pnl.gov (Jaroslaw Nieplocha)
Subject: Global Arrays programming environment
Organization: Battelle - Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 00:29:05 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <3j4pcl$rl1@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

The release 2.0 of the Global Array (GA) toolkit is now available for
public distribution.

The GA toolkit provides a portable "shared-memory" NUMA programming
environment.  The GA allows each process in a MIMD parallel program
asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed
matrices, without need for explicit cooperation by other processes.

In addition to many internal improvements, this version introduces 
several new operations and ports to new platforms. Performance results
on the major architectures are also included.


                       Supported Platforms: 
Cray T3D, 
IBM SP-1/2, 
Intel iPSC/860, Delta, Paragon,
KSR-1/2,
networks of single- and multi-processor workstations:
  SUN, IBM, DEC, and SGI (including Power Challenge) 

                          Distribution:

anonymous ftp: ftp.pnl.gov   directory: /pub/global   file: global2.0.tar.Z


                      More Information About GA:

http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/global/ga.html

J.Nieplocha, RJ Harrison, RJ Littlefield, "Global Arrays: a portable 'shared
memory' programming model for distributed memory computers", Supercomputing'94,
pp. 340-349. (a copy is also distributed with the toolkit)

