UPC: DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING

PREFACE

About UPC

Many have contributed to the ideas and concepts behind the UPC language. The initial UPC language concepts and specifications were published as a technical report authored by William Carlson, Jesse Draper, David Culler, Katherine Yelick, Eugene Brooks, and Karen Warren in May 1999. The first UPC consortium meeting was held in Bowie, Maryland, in May 2000, during which the UPC language concepts and specifications were discussed and augmented extensively. The UPC consortium is composed of a group of academic institutions, vendors, and government laboratories and has been holding regular meetings since May 1999 to continue to develop the UPC language. The first formal specifications of UPC, known as v1.0, was authored by Tarek El-Ghazawi, William Carlson, and Jesse Draper and released in February 2001. The current version, v1.1.1, was released in October 2003 with minor changes and edits from v1.0. At present, v1.2 of the specifications is in the works and is expected to be released soon. v1.2 will be a publication of the UPC consortium because of the extensive contributions of many of the consortium members. v1.2 will incorporate UPC v1.1.1 with additions and will include the full UPC collective operations specifications, v1.0, and the I/O specifications v1.0. The first version of the UPC collective operations specification was authored by Steven Seidel, David Greenberg, and Elizabeth Wiebel and released in December 2003. The first version of the I/O specification ...