Part IV. Programming With High Level APIs

Table of Contents

Chapter 14. Master-Worker API

14.1. Overview

14.2. Logger Settings

14.3. Master Creation And Deployment

14.3.1. Local Master creation

14.3.2. Remote Master creation

14.4. Adding Resources

14.5. Tasks definition and submission

14.6. Results retrieval and reception order

14.7. Terminating the master

14.8. Worker ping period

14.9. Worker task flooding

14.10. Worker Memory

14.10.1. Structure and API

14.10.2. Storing data

14.10.3. Retrieving and using the data

14.11. Monte-Carlo PI Example

Chapter 15. The Calcium Skeleton Framework

15.1. Introduction

15.1.1. About Calcium

15.1.2. The Big Picture

15.2. Quick Example

15.2.1. Define the skeleton structure

15.2.2. Implementing the Muscle Functions

15.2.3. Create a new Calcium Instance

15.2.4. Provide an input of problems to be solved by the framework

15.2.5. Collect the results

15.2.6. View the performance statistics

15.3. Supported Patterns

15.4. Execution Environments

15.4.1. MultiThreadedEnvironment

15.4.2. ProActiveEnvironment

15.4.3. ProActiveSchedulerEnvironment (unstable)

15.5. File Access and Transfer Support (beta)

15.5.1. WorkSpace

15.5.2. Annotated Muscle Functions

15.5.3. Muscle Function Example

15.5.4. Input and Output Files from the framework

15.6. Performance Statistics (beta)

15.6.1. Global Statistics

15.6.2. Local Result Statistics

Chapter 16. OOSPMD

16.1. OOSPMD: Introduction

16.2. SPMD Group Creation

16.3. Synchronizing activities with barriers

16.3.1. Total Barrier

16.3.2. Neighbour barrier

16.3.3. Method Barrier

16.4. MPI to ProActive Summary

Chapter 17. Wrapping Application Legacy code

17.1. Simple Wrapping

17.1.1. Principles

17.1.2. API For Deploying MPI Codes

17.1.3. How to write an application with the XML and the API

17.1.4. Using the Infrastructure

17.1.5. Example with several codes

17.2. Wrapping with control

17.2.1. One Active Object per MPI process

17.2.2. MPI to ProActive Communications

17.2.3. ProActive to MPI Communications

17.2.4. MPI to MPI Communications through ProActive

17.2.5. USER STEPS - The Jacobi Relaxation example

17.3. Design and Implementation

17.3.1. Simple wrapping

17.4. Summary of the API

17.4.1. Simple Wrapping and Deployment of MPI Code

17.4.2. Wrapping with Control