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The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon

Joachim Maier

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Parallel programming is hard enough, nevertheless parallel computers, which often are not far away from prototype status, have low reliability. This makes it difficult or sometimes impossible to successfully execute long-running applications, as they are typical for the `Grand-Challenge &apos; problems. Pact is a parallel programming environment with usertransparent fault-tolerance based on atomic actions. Virtual shared memory with user-defined dataunits and an easy-to-use synchronization model make parallel programming easier without losing too much efficiency. In this article the design for a massively parallel implementation on the intel Paragon^TM is presented which due to the availability of threads and a very efficient asynchronous message-passing by using message-passing processors promises even less runtime overhead than the current prototype which is running on a Tandem^TM multiprocessor system. 1 Introduction Distributed memory machines like the intel Paragon ^TM usually su...

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Maier, J. (1993). The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon.

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Maier, Joachim. “The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon.” 1993.

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Maier, Joachim. 1993. “The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon.”

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Maier, J. (1993) ‘The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon’.

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@article{maier1993pact,
  title = {{The Pact Fault-Tolerant Parallel Programming Environment for the Paragon}},
  author = {Maier, Joachim},
  year = {1993}
}

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