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Following the discussion above, the machine model that the WRAPPER
presents to an application has the following characteristics
- The machine consists of one or more logical processors.
- Each processor operates on tiles that it owns.
- A processor may own more than one tile.
- Processors may compute concurrently.
- Exchange of information between tiles is handled by the
machine (WRAPPER) not by the application.
Behind the scenes this allows the WRAPPER to adapt the machine model
functions to exploit hardware on which
- Processors may be able to communicate very efficiently with each other
using shared memory.
- An alternative communication mechanism based on a relatively
simple inter-process communication API may be required.
- Shared memory may not necessarily obey sequential consistency,
however some mechanism will exist for enforcing memory consistency.
- Memory consistency that is enforced at the hardware level
may be expensive. Unnecessary triggering of consistency protocols
should be avoided.
- Memory access patterns may need to either repetitive or highly
pipelined for optimum hardware performance.
This generic model captures the essential hardware ingredients
of almost all successful scientific computer systems designed in the
last 50 years.
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