Decoupling as a Foundation for Large Scale Parallel Computing

  • Authors:
  • Justin Y. Shi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HPCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The “main-stream” inter-process communication models (share-memory and message-passing) require the programmers responsible for the construction of a very complex state machine for parallel processing. This has resulted multiple difficulties including programming, performance tuning, debugging, job scheduling and fault tolerance. The most troubling is the degree of difficulties. It increases exponentially as the multiprocessor grows in size. Inspired by the successes of packet switching protocols, this paper reports our preliminary findings in using decoupling technologies for parallel applications with high reliability, high performance and programmability.