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User Guide for a Portable Parallel C++ Programming System, pC++

Dennis Gannon, Shelby X. Yang, Peter Beckman
Department of Computer Science &CICA
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.

Mon Nov 21 09:50:23 EST 1994

Abstract:

pC++ User Guide

• Contents
• Introduction
• Installing the System. Ver. 1.0
  • Installation
• The pC++ Programming Language.
  • Threads, Processors and Runtime Models Ver. 1.0+.
  • Thread Environment Classes. Ver. 2.0
    • Thread Reduction Functions. Ver. 2.0
    • Communication Between Threads. Ver. 2.0
    • Constructors for TEClass Objects. Ver. 2.0
    • Encapsulating SPMD Libraries. Ver. 2.0
• Collections. Ver 1.0+
  • Distributions, Alignments, and Processors Ver 1.0+
  • Collection as a Template TEClass. Ver 2.0
  • Element Types. Ver 1.0+
  • The Structure of a Collection. Ver 1.0+
  • Collection Constructors. Ver 1.0+
  • Communication between Collection Elements. Ver 1.0+
    • Vector Subsets of a Collection. Ver. 1.0+
    • More on ThisCollection. Ver. 2.0
    • Working with the Local Collection. Ver. 1.0+
  • Accessing a Remote Collection Element. Ver 1.0+
  • Parallelism with Collection: Summary. Ver 1.0+
    • Method of Element Parallelism
    • Thread Parallelism
  • The Organization of a pC++ Program. Ver 1.0+
    • I/O in pC++ programs. ver 1.0
• Programming with Collections. Ver 1.0+
  • Example: Matrix-Matrix Multiply. Ver 1.0+
  • Example: Batcher's Bitonic Merge Sort. Ver 1.0+
  • C++ and HPF Style Fortran. Ver 2.0
  • Interfacing HPF and pC++
  • Working with Connection Machines node Fortran on the CM-5
  • Working with Intel node Fortran on the Paragon
• The Demo Examples. Ver 1.0+
  • BM-1: Block Grid CG
  • BM-2: A Fast Poisson Solver
  • BM-3: The NAS Embarrassingly Parallel Bechmark
  • BM-4: the NAS Sparse CG Benchmark
• Known Bugs in Version 1.0
• The pC++ Kernel Class
  • The pC++ SuperKernel collection
• The DistributedArray Collection
• Acknowledgments
• About this document ...