Integrating task parallelism in data parallel languages for parallel programming on NOWs

摘要

A number of high-level parallel programming platforms for networks of workstations (NOWs) have been developed in recent times. Most of these platforms target the exploitation of data parallelism in applications. They do not allow expressibility of applications as a collection of tasks along with their precedence Relationships. As a result, the control or task parallelism in an application cannot be expressed or exploited.