The Parallel Runtime

Msg Pass Lowest Common Denominator

•Most programmers write direct message passing code

•With explicit message passing statements in code it is difficult to adapt to new computer

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•All compilers targeting large parallel machines (except ZPL) use message passing

•Unable to exploit other communication models

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Msg passing, shmem, shared are all different conceptions

Message passing, shmem, shared require different compiler formulation