Towards a Parallel C++ Programming Language Based on Commodity Object-Oriented Technologies

摘要

To become widespread, parallel computing should be based on advanced commodity technology, and parallel languages are no exception. But parallel languages must also support a wide range of parallel programming styles, ease of programming, and high performance. We show that C++ can support a wide range of parallel programming styles without special language extensions. More concretely, we used MPC++, a parallel dialect of C++ extended using only templates and inheritance, to create a prototype class/template library which supports three kinds of parallel programming styles. We tested the library performance with representative programs in each of the programming styles.