UPC: DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING

Table of Contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. PREFACE
   1. About UPC
   2. About This Book
   3. Resources
   4. Acknowledgments
6. CHAPTER 1: Introductory Tutorial
   1. 1.1 GETTING STARTED
   2. 1.2 PRIVATE AND SHARED DATA
   3. 1.3 SHARED ARRAYS AND AFFINITY OF SHARED DATA
   4. 1.4 SYNCHRONIZATION AND MEMORY CONSISTENCY
   5. 1.5 WORK SHARING
   6. 1.6 UPC POINTERS
   7. 1.7 SUMMARY
   8. EXERCISES
7. CHAPTER 2: Programming View and UPC Data Types
   1. 2.1 PROGRAMMING MODELS
   2. 2.2 UPC PROGRAMMING MODEL
   3. 2.3 SHARED AND PRIVATE VARIABLES
   4. 2.4 SHARED AND PRIVATE ARRAYS
   5. 2.5 BLOCKED SHARED ARRAYS
   6. 2.6 COMPILING ENVIRONMENTS AND SHARED ARRAYS
   7. 2.7 SUMMARY
   8. EXERCISES
8. CHAPTER 3: Pointers and Arrays
   1. 3.1 UPC POINTERS
   2. 3.2 POINTER ARITHMETIC
   3. 3.3 POINTER CASTING AND USAGE PRACTICES
   4. 3.4 POINTER INFORMATION AND MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS
   5. 3.5 MORE POINTER EXAMPLES
   6. 3.6 SUMMARY
   7. EXERCISES
9. CHAPTER 4: Work Sharing and Domain Decomposition
   1. 4.1 BASIC WORK DISTRIBUTION
   2. 4.2 PARALLEL ITERATIONS
   3. 4.3 MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA
   4. 4.4 DISTRIBUTING TREES
   5. 4.5 SUMMARY
   6. EXERCISES
10. CHAPTER 5: Dynamic Shared Memory Allocation
    1. 5.1 ALLOCATING A GLOBAL SHARED MEMORY SPACE COLLECTIVELY
    2. 5.2 ALLOCATING MULTIPLE GLOBAL SPACES
    3. 5.3 ALLOCATING LOCAL SHARED SPACES
    4. 5.4 FREEING ALLOCATED SPACES
    5. 5.5 SUMMARY
    6. EXERCISES
11. CHAPTER 6: Synchronization and Memory Consistency
    1. 6.1 BARRIERS
    2. 6.2 SPLIT-PHASE BARRIERS
    3. 6.3 LOCKS
    4. 6.4 MEMORY CONSISTENCY
    5. 6.5 SUMMARY
    6. EXERCISES
12. CHAPTER 7: Performance Tuning and Optimization
    1. 7.1 PARALLEL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
    2. 7.2 PERFORMANCE ISSUES IN PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
    3. 7.3 ROLE OF COMPILERS AND RUN-TIME SYSTEMS
    4. 7.4 UPC HAND OPTIMIZATION
    5. 7.5 CASE STUDIES
    6. 7.6 SUMMARY
    7. EXERCISES
13. CHAPTER 8: UPC Libraries
    1. 8.1 UPC COLLECTIVE LIBRARY
    2. 8.2 UPC-IO LIBRARY
    3. 8.3 SUMMARY
14. REFERENCES
15. APPENDIX A: UPC Language Specifications, v1.1.1
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. 1 SCOPE
    3. 2 NORMATIVE REFERENCES
    4. 3 TERMS, DEFINITIONS, AND SYMBOLS
    5. 4 CONFORMANCE
    6. 5 ENVIRONMENT
    7. 6 LANGUAGE
    8. 7 LIBRARY
    9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    10. REFERENCES
16. APPENDIX B: UPC Collective Operations Specifications, v1.0
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. 1 SCOPE
    3. 2 DEFINITIONS
    4. 3 COMMON REQUIREMENTS
    5. 4 COLLECTIVES LIBRARY
    6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    7. REFERENCES
17. APPENDIX C: UPC-IO Specifications, v1.0
    1. 3 TERMS, DEFINITIONS, AND SYMBOLS
    2. 7 LIBRARY
    3. APPENDIX: FUTURE LIBRARY DIRECTIONS
    4. REFERENCES
18. APPENDIX D: How to Compile and Run UPC Programs
    1. COMPILING AND RUNNING ON THE CRAY X1 UPC COMPILER
    2. COMPILING AND RUNNING ON THE HP-UPC COMPILER
    3. COMPILING AND RUNNING ON THE SGI-INTREPID GCC-UPC COMPILER
    4. COMPILING AND RUNNING ON THE BERKELEY UPC COMPILER
19. APPENDIX E: Quick UPC Reference
    1. KEYWORDS
    2. SHARED VARIABLE DECLARATIONS
    3. LOCKS
    4. GENERAL UTILITIES
    5. WORK SHARING
    6. SYNCHRONIZATION
    7. LIBRARY ROUTINES
    8. DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION
    9. STRING FUNCTIONS IN UPC
20. INDEX