The Multicomputer Toolbox - First-Generation Scalable Libraries
Anthony Skjellum, A.P. Leung, Steven M. Smith, Robert D. Falgout, Charles H. Still, Chuck H. Baldwin · Syracuse University Libraries (Syracuse University) · 1994
1 \\First-generation " scalable parallel libraries have been achieved, and are maturing, within the Mul-ticomputer Toolbox. The Toolbox includes sparse, dense, iterative linear algebra, a sti ODE/DAE solver, and an open software technology for additional numerical algorithms, plus an inter-architecture Make le mechanism for building applications. We have devised C-based strategies for useful classes of distributed data structures, including distributed matrices and vectors. The underlying Zip-codemessage passing system has enabled process-grid abstractions of multicomputers, communi-cation contexts, and process groups, all characteristics needed for building scalable libraries, and