Chare kernel and its implementation on multicomputers

The chare kernel is a runtime support system for executing parallel programs. It is responsible for the scheduling of parallel actions--chares, and the manipulating of data exchange between chares, so that programmers can concentrate on exploring parallelism. The chare kernel provides several dynamic scheduling schemes to support applications with dynamic features. One of the schemes, called Adaptive Contracting Within Neighborhood, is especially designed for the runtime self-adaptive feature with low overhead. The chare kernel language can be used in two ways: as a user programming language or as an intermediate language for implementing high-level languages. As an intermediate language, the chare kernel language serves as a compilation target to which high-level programming languages are translated. These high-level languages could be implicit parallel languages, such as logic or functional programming languages. Since the chare kernel hides the machine-dependent features, programs written in the chare kernel language can run on different MIMD parallel machines--whether shared-memory or message-passing--without any changes. The preliminary performance studies have been conducted on the Intel iPSC/2 and the NCUBE hypercubes and several shared-memory machines.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Shu, Wei Wennie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Loui, Michael C.

• Computer Science

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Shu, Wei Wennie

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9021756
(UMI)AAI9021756

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19191