View-Oriented Parallel Programming on Multi-Core Clusters

Driven by the ever-growing demand for computing power, computers are becoming more and more powerful. However, in recent years, due to the physical limitations, this increased computing power does not come in the form of increased CPU clock speed, but in the form of more cores(processors) in a single chip die. Computer industry has started to use this new multi-core technology to massively produce systems for both stand-alone desktop PCs and high-end servers. In the near future, multi-core cluster will become one of the most economic supercomputer architectures. In order to uti-lize the full power of multi-core systems, some kind of paral-lel computing is necessary. However, parallel programming is notoriously known as a challenge job. This paper ana-lyzes different parallel programming models, compares their strengths and weaknesses on multi-core based systems, and introduces an on-going project on providing a better parallel programming environment based on a novel View-Oriented Parallel Programming (VOPP) model