UPC: DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING

APPENDIX A

UPC Language Specifications, v1.1.1

Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, William W. Carlson, and Jesse M. Draper

Introduction

1 Scope

2 Normative References

3 Terms, Definitions, and Symbols

3.1 Access

3.1.1 Local Access

3.1.2 Private Access

3.1.3 Remote Access

3.2 Affinity

3.3 Shared Object

3.4 Pointer-to-Shared

3.5 Thread

3.6 Collective

3.7 Single-Valued

3.8 Phase

4 Conformance

5 Environment

5.1 Conceptual Models

5.1.1 Translation Environment

5.1.2 Execution Environment

6 Language

6.1 Notation

6.2 Predefined Identifiers

6.2.1 THREADS

6.2.2 MYTHREAD

6.2.3 UPC_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE

6.3 Expressions

6.3.1 upc_localsizeof Operator

6.3.2 upc_blocksizeof Operator

6.3.3 upc_elemsizeof Operator

6.3.4 Pointer-to-Shared Arithmetic

6.3.5 Cast and Assignment Expressions

6.3.6 Address Operators

6.4 Declarations

6.4.1 Type Qualifiers

6.4.2 Shared and Reference Type Qualifiers

6.4.3 Declarators

6.5 Statements and Blocks

6.5.1 Barrier Statements

6.5.2 Iteration Statements

6.6 Preprocessing Directives

6.6.1 UPC Pragmas

6.6.2 Predefined Macro Names

7 Library

7.1 Standard Headers

7.2 UPC Utilities <upc.h>

7.2.1 Termination of All Threads

7.2.2 Shared Memory Allocation Functions

7.2.3 Pointer-to-Shared Manipulation Functions

7.2.4 Lock Functions

7.2.5 Shared String-Handling Functions

Acknowledgments

References

INTRODUCTION

1. UPC is a parallel extension to the C Standard. UPC follows the distributed shared memory programming paradigm. The first version of UPC, known as version 0.9, was published in ...