id: 06094447
dt: j
an: 06094447
au: Miller, Phil; Becker, Aaron; Kalé, Laxmikant
ti: Using shared arrays in message-driven parallel programs.
so: Parallel Comput. 38, No. 1-2, 66-74 (2012).
py: 2012
pu: Elsevier (North Holland), Amsterdam
la: EN
cc: 
ut: parallel programming models; composition; distributed shared arrays;
    asynchronous execution
ci: 
li: doi:10.1016/j.parco.2011.10.005
ab: Summary: This paper describes a safe and efficient combination of the
    object-based message-driven execution and shared array parallel
    programming models. In particular, we demonstrate how this combination
    engenders the composition of loosely coupled parallel modules safely
    accessing a common shared array. That loose coupling enables both
    better flexibility in parallel execution and greater ease of
    implementing multi-physics simulations. As a case study, we describe
    how the parallelization of a new method for molecular dynamics
    simulation benefits from both of these advantages. We also describe a
    system of typed handle objects that embed some of the determinacy
    constraints of the Multiphase Shared Array programming model in the C++
    type system, to catch some violations at compile time. The combined
    programming model communicates in terms of these handles as a natural
    means of detecting and preventing errors.
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