GlobalArrays Manual

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Basic Functionality
  • Programming Model
  • Application Guidelines
    • When to use GA
    • When not to use GA
• Building GlobalArrays
  • autotools build
    • Configuration Options
    • Selecting the Underlying One-Sided Runtime
    • Full List of Runtimes
    • Other Options
    • Special Notes for BLAS
    • Cross-Compilation Issues
    • Cray XT
    • Compiler Selection
    • After Configuration
    • Test Programs
    • Test Suite
    • Performance Tuning
  • CMake Build
    • Dependencies
    • The following options are supported:
• Initialization and Termination
  • Message Passing
  • Memory Allocation
    • Determining the Values of MA Stack and Heap Size
  • GA Initialization
    • Limiting Memory Usage by Global Arrays
  • Termination
  • Creating Arrays - I
    • Creating Arrays with Ghost Cells
  • Creating Arrays - II
  • Destroying Arrays
• One-sided Communication Operations
  • Put/Get
  • Accumulate and Read-and-increment
  • Scatter/Gather
  • Periodic Interfaces
  • Non-blocking operations
• Interprocess Synchronization
  • Lock and Mutex
  • Fence
  • Sync
• Collective Array Operations
  • Basic Array Operations
    • Whole Arrays
    • Patches
  • Linear Algebra
    • Whole Arrays
    • Patches
    • Element-wise operations
  • Interfaces to Third Party Software Packages
    • Scalapack
    • PeIGS
    • Interoperability with Others
  • Synchronization Control in Collective Operations
• Utility Operations
  • Locality Information
    • Process Information
    • Cluster Information
  • Memory Availability
  • Message-Passing Wrappers to Reduce/Broadcast Operations
  • Others
    • Inquire
    • Print
    • Miscellaneous
• GA++: C++ Bindings for Global Arrays
  • Overview
  • GA++ Classes
  • Initialization and Termination
  • GAServices
  • Global Array
• Mirrored Arrays
  • Overview
  • Mirrored Array Operations
• Processor Groups
  • Overview
  • Creating New Groups
  • Setting the Default Group
  • Inquiry functions
  • Collective operations on groups
• Sparse Data Operations
  • Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiply Example
• Restricted Arrays
  • Overview
  • Restricted Arrays Operations
• Sparse Array Operations
  • Creating a Sparse Array
  • Collective Operations on Sparse Arrays
  • Direct Access to Sparse Matrix Data