Nexus

Abstract

Nexus is a portable library providing the multithreading, communication, and resource management facilities required to implement advanced languages, libraries, and applications in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing environments. Its interface provides multiple threads of control, dynamic processor acquisition, dynamic address space creation, a global memory model via interprocessor references, and asynchronous events. Its implementation supports multiple communication protocols and resource characterization mechanisms that allow automatic selection of optimal protocols. Nexus is intended for use by compiler writers and library developers, rather than application programmers. Nexus is now part of the Globus toolkit and is distributed as such.

DateOfInformation

Fri Oct 30 13:20:22 1998

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Parallel Runtime Systems

Keyword

parallel runtime system; task parallelism; data parallelism

Name

Nexus

TargetEnvironment

Nexus has been tested on the follow architectures: Solaris 2.5.1, SunOS 4.1.4, SGI IRIX 6.2, IBM AIX 3.2.5, IBM AIX 4.x, DEC Unix 4.0, IBM SP (AIX4 & AIX3, --without-threads only), Intel Paragon (--target=i860-intel-osf1, --without-threads only).

Webpage

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/nexus/

ContactIs

Nexus Help