P3M: A Virtual Machine Approach to Massively Parallel Computing

1 August 1993

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1 (01903918) , 340-344
https://doi.org/10.1109/icpp.1993.132

Abstract

While technology improvements in VLSI favor the building of massively parallel computers, the key obstacle to the widespread adoption of such computers is the lack of a methodology for developing software that achieves both portability and high performance. This paper presents a virtual machine intended to serve as the cornerstone of such a methodology. The PM virtual machine can be mapped efficiently to different physical machines and enables the development of software tools and applications that can be ported across different parallel machines.

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