Abstract

Nexus is a set of services that can be used to implement various task-parallel languages, data-parallel languages, and message-passing libraries. Nexus is designed to permit the efficient portable implementation of individual parallel programming systems and the interoperability of programs developed with different tools. Nexus supports lightweight threading and active message technology, allowing integration of message passing and threads.

Date

May 1, 1994

Authors

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Robert Olson, Steven Tuecke

Issue

ANL/MCS-TM-189

Publisher

Argonne National Lab.(ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)