An evaluation of global address space languages: Co-array fortran and Unified Parallel C

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 36-47

  Coarfa, Cristian ^a   Dotsenko, Yuri ^a   Mellor Crummey, John ^a   Cantonnet, François ^b   Ei Ghazawi, Tarek ^b   Mohanti, Ashrujit ^b   Yao, Yiyi ^b   Chavarría Miranda, Daniel ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAF; Co array Fortran; Compilers; Global address space languages; Parallel languages; Performance; Scalability; Unified Parallel C; UPC

Indexed keywords

CAF; CO-ARRAY FORTRAN; SCALABILITY; UPC;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 31844441256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1065944.1065950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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