Design and Implementation of the CCC Parallel Programming Language

Abstract

CCC is a high-level parallel programming language that aims to provide a coherent integration of various parallel programming paradigms. CCC supports both data and task parallelism. In CCC, data parallelism is specified in SIMD model, while task parallelism is specified in MIMD model. Task parallelism in CCC supports both message-passing communication abstraction and shared-variables synchronization abstraction. The CCC parallel programming system aims to provide a unified implementation on top of various parallel machines. CCC has been implemented on both SMPs and SMP clusters. The implementation is mainly based on a virtual shared memory machine interface that supports both shared memory and dynamic task creation. This paper describes the design and implementation details of CCC.