Global Arrays: A nonuniform memory access programming model for high-performance computers

Journal of Supercomputing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 169-189

  Nieplocha, Jaroslaw ^a   Harrison, Robert J ^a   Littlefield, Richard J ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry; Distributed arrays; Global arrays; Grand Challenges; NUMA architecture; One sided communication; Parallel programming environments; Parallel programming models; Scientific computing; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; GLOBAL ARRAYS (GA); HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS; MESSAGE PASSING PROGRAMMING MODEL; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE DATA (MIMD) PARALLEL PROGRAM; NONUNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS PROGRAMMING MODEL; SCALABLE PARALLEL APPLICATION; SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING MODEL;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030157365     PISSN: 09208542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00130708     Document Type: Article

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