Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
11-8-1995
Technical Report Number
PCS-TR95-267
Abstract
Current APIs for multiprocessor multi-disk file systems are not easy to use in developing out-of-core algorithms that choreograph parallel data accesses. Consequently, the efficiency of these algorithms is hard to achieve in practice. We address this deficiency by specifying an API that includes data-access primitives for data choreography. With our API, the programmer can easily access specific blocks from each disk in a single operation, thereby fully utilizing the parallelism of the underlying storage system. Our API supports the development of libraries of commonly-used higher-level routines such as matrix-matrix addition, matrix-matrix multiplication, and BMMC (bit-matrix-multiply/complement) permutations. We illustrate our API in implementations of these three high-level routines to demonstrate how easy it is to use.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Shriver, Elizabeth A.M. and Wisniewski, Leonard F., "An API for Choreographing Data Accesses" (1995). Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR95-267. https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/cs_tr/121
Comments
Also published as Courant Institute Tech Report 708.