Part IV. Programming With High Level APIs

Table of Contents

Chapter 13. Master-Worker API

13.1. Overview

13.2. Logger Settings

13.3. Master Creation And Deployment

13.3.1. Local Master creation

13.3.2. Remote Master creation

13.4. Adding Resources

13.5. Tasks definition and submission

13.6. Results retrieval and reception order

13.7. Terminating the master

13.8. Worker ping period

13.9. Worker task flooding

13.10. Worker Memory

13.10.1. Structure and API

13.10.2. Storing data

13.10.3. Retrieving and using the data

13.11. Monte-Carlo PI Example

Chapter 14. The Calcium Skeleton Framework

14.1. Introduction

14.1.1. About Calcium

14.1.2. The Big Picture

14.2. Quick Example

14.2.1. Define the skeleton structure

14.2.2. Implementing the Muscle Functions

14.2.3. Create a new Calcium Instance

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

14.2.5. Collect the results

14.2.6. View the performance statistics

14.3. Supported Patterns

14.4. Execution Environments

14.4.1. MultiThreadedEnvironment

14.4.2. ProActiveEnvironment

14.4.3. ProActiveSchedulerEnvironment (unstable)

14.5. File Access and Transfer Support (beta)

14.5.1. WorkSpace

14.5.2. Annotated Muscle Functions

14.5.3. Muscle Function Example

14.5.4. Input and Output Files from the framework

14.6. Performance Statistics (beta)

14.6.1. Global Statistics

14.6.2. Local Result Statistics

Chapter 15. OOSPMD

15.1. OOSPMD: Introduction

15.2. SPMD Group Creation

15.3. Synchronizing activities with barriers

15.3.1. Total Barrier

15.3.2. Neighbour barrier

15.3.3. Method Barrier

15.4. MPI to ProActive Summary

Chapter 16. Wrapping Application Legacy code

16.1. Simple Wrapping

16.1.1. Principles

16.1.2. API For Deploying MPI Codes

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

16.1.4. Using the Infrastructure

16.1.5. Example with several codes

16.2. Wrapping with control

16.2.1. One Active Object per MPI process

16.2.2. MPI to ProActive Communications

16.2.3. ProActive to MPI Communications

16.2.4. MPI to MPI Communications through ProActive

16.2.5. USER STEPS - The Jacobi Relaxation example

16.3. Design and Implementation

16.3.1. Simple wrapping

16.4. Summary of the API

16.4.1. Simple Wrapping and Deployment of MPI Code

16.4.2. Wrapping with Control