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A software architecture for multidisciplinary applications: Integrating task and data parallelism

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Parallel Processing: CONPAR 94 — VAPP VI (VAPP 1994, CONPAR 1994)

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Data parallel languages such as Vienna Fortran and HPF can be successfully applied to a wide range of numerical applications. However, many advanced scientific and engineering applications are of a multidisciplinary and heterogeneous nature and thus do not fit well into the data parallel paradigm. In this paper we present new Fortran 90 language extensions to fill this gap. Tasks can be spawned as asynchronous activities in a homogeneous or heterogeneous computing environment; they interact by sharing access to Shared Data Abstractions (SDAs). These mechanisms support the integration of data and task parallelism as well as nested task parallelism and thus can be used to express multidisciplinary applications in a natural and efficient way.

The work described in this paper was partially supported by the Austrian Research Foundation (FWF Grant P8989-PHY) and by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research (BMWF Grant GZ 308.9281- IV/3/93). This research was also supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under NASA Contract No. NAS1-19480, while the authors were in residence at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681.

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  1. Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems, University of Vienna, Brünner Strasse 72, A-1210, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Chapman & Hans Zima

  2. ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center, MS 132C, 23681, Hampton, VA, USA

    Piyush Mehrotra & John Van Rosendale

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Chapman, B., Mehrotra, P., Van Rosendale, J., Zima, H. (1994). A software architecture for multidisciplinary applications: Integrating task and data parallelism. In: Buchberger, B., Volkert, J. (eds) Parallel Processing: CONPAR 94 — VAPP VI. VAPP CONPAR 1994 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 854. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58430-7_58

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