The Case for High-Level Parallel Programming in ZPL

  • Authors:
  • Bradford L. Chamberlain;Sung-Eun Choi;E Christopher Lewis;Lawrence Snyder;W. Derrick Weathersby;Calvin Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The authors argue that we must continue to seek new high-level languages to reduce the programming effort of using high-performance architectures. Message-passing programs are efficient, but fall short on portability and performance. The authors claim that the key to parallel language design is to present language abstractions that simplify programming, expose costs, and can be effectively compiled to different machines. ZPL is a high-level language that offers good performance, portability, and convenience.