Aspect-Oriented Pluggable Support for Parallel Computing

Abstract. In this paper, we present an approach to develop parallel applications based on aspect oriented programming. We propose a collection of aspects to implement group communication mechanisms on parallel applications. In our approach, parallelisation code is developed by composing the collection into the application core functionality. The approach requires fewer changes to sequential applications to parallelise the core functionality than current alternatives and yields more modular code. We present the collection and show how the aspects can be used to develop efficient parallel applications.