The pilot library for novice MPI programmers

Authors:
John D. Carter;William B. Gardner;Gary Grewal
Affiliations:
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada;University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada;University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The Pilot library is a new method for programming MPI-enabled clusters in C, targeted at novice parallel programmers. Formal elements from Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) are used to realize a process/channel model of parallel computation that reduces opportunities for deadlock and other communication errors. This simple model, plus an application programming inter-face (API) styled after C's formatted I/O, are designed to make the library easy to learn. The Pilot library exists as a thin layer on top of any standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) implementation, preserving MPI's portability and efficiency, with little per-formance overhead arising as result of Pilot's additional features.