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PINEAPL

Abstract: The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG) is pleased to announce the availability of Release 1 of the PINEAPL Library. This library has been developed in the HPCN Fourth Framework project on Parallel Industrial NumErical Applications and Portable Libraries (PINEAPL), in which NAG is currently coordinating. This Library is the result of a coordinated effort by the Center for Research on Parallel Computing and Supercomputers National Research Council (Naples, Italy), NAG Ltd (Oxford, UK) and the Centre for Novel Computing of the University of Manchester (Manchester, UK). One of the main goals of the project is to increase the suitability of the existing NAG Parallel Library for dealing with computationally intensive industrial applications by appropriately extending the range of library routines. Additionally, several industrial applications are being ported onto parallel computers within the PINEAPL project by replacing sequential code sections with calls to appropriate parallel library routines. Consequently, the coverage of the PINEAPL Library is to a large extent driven by the demands of the end-user applications with the project and focuses on three major numerical areas: Sparse Linear Algebra, Fast Fourier Transforms, and Non-Linear Optimization. Additional utility routines for data distribution, input/output and process management purposes shield users to a large extent from having to deal explicitly with the message-passing system - which may be either MPI or PVM - on which the library is based. The PINEAPL Library enables users to take advantage of the increased computing power and memory capacity offered by parallel and distributed computing environments. Targeted primarily at distributed memory computers and networks of workstations, the PINEAPL Library also performs well on shared memory computers whenever efficient implementations of MPI or PVM are available. It offers increased speed of execution over sequential numerical software on these systems and allows problems to be solved which are beyond the memory capacity of single processor systems.
DateOfInformation: Thr Dec 3 13:26:47 1998
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Domain: Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Programming Libraries
Name: PINEAPL
TargetEnvironment: Target machines for the project will range from low cost networks of workstations that are common in SMEs to high-end distributed memory parallel computers. Targeted primarily at distributed memory computers and networks of workstations, the PINEAPL Library also performs well on shared memory computers whenever efficient implementations of MPI or PVM are available.
Version: Release 1
Webpage: http://www.nag.co.uk/projects/PINEAPL.html
ContactIs: Sven Hammarling
Mishi Derakhshan

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