Title

BSPlib: The BSP programming library

Keywords

Bulk synchronous parallel; One-sided communication; Parallel communications library

Abstract

BSPlib is a small communications library for bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) programming which consists of only 20 basic operations. This paper presents the full definition of BSPlib in C, motivates the design of its basic operations, and gives examples of their use. The library enables programming in two distinct styles: direct remote memory access (DRMA) using put or get operations, and bulk synchronous message passing (BSMP). Currently, implementations of BSPlib exist for a variety of modern architectures, including massively parallel computers with distributed memory, shared memory multiprocessors, and networks of workstations. BSPlib has been used in several scientific and industrial applications; this paper briefly describes applications in benchmarking, Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), sorting, and molecular dynamics. © 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Parallel Computing

Volume

24

Issue

14

Number of Pages

1947-1980

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8191(98)00093-3

Socpus ID

0032297719 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0032297719

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