BSPlib: the BSP Programming Library

J.M.D. Hill; B. McColl; D.C. Stefanescu; M.W. Goudreau; K. Lang; S.B. Rao; T. Suel; T. Tsantilas; R.H. Bisseling

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BSPlib: the BSP Programming Library

J.M.D. Hill, B. McColl, D.C. Stefanescu, M.W. Goudreau, K. Lang, S.B. Rao, T. Suel, T. Tsantilas, R.H. Bisseling

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1947-1980
Number of pages	34
Journal	Parallel Computing
Volume	24
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8191(98)00093-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 1998

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