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Collection Types for Database Programming in the BSP Model (1997)
| Venue: | In Fifth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing. IEEE CS |
| Citations: | 6 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sujithan97collectiontypes,
author = {K. Ronald Sujithan and Jonathan M.D. Hill},
title = {Collection Types for Database Programming in the BSP Model},
booktitle = {In Fifth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing. IEEE CS},
year = {1997},
publisher = {Press}
}
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Abstract
We study the pragmatics of integrating collection types, that model a broad class of nonnumerical applications, into the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model which abstracts a diversity of parallel architectures using just four numerical parameters. We outline how the collection types have been built on-top of the direct BSP programming environment provided by BSPlib, give results on a SGI PowerChallenge and IBM SP2, and discuss how these types can help implement object databases. 1 Introduction Parallel computers have been successfully deployed in many scientific and numerical application areas, but their use in commercial applications, which are often non-numerical in nature, has been scarce. One of the impediments in the long-term commercial uptake of parallel computing has been the proliferation of differing machine architectures and corresponding programming models. However, due to several technological and economic reasons, the various classes of parallel computers such as shar...
Keyphrases
collection type database programming bsp model nonnumerical application parallel computing broad class ibm sp2 direct bsp programming environment give result long-term commercial uptake numerical parameter object database numerical application area sgi powerchallenge introduction parallel computer various class bulk synchronous parallel programming model parallel computer machine architecture economic reason commercial application parallel architecture
