Programming for Kerrighed

• OpenMP
  • OpenMP compiler can arrange data layout to be compatible with usage in a DSM.
• Programming using shared memory
  • It's possible to use shared memory without using threads using system V IPC shared memory segment as on classic unixes. The memory segment are shared across all nodes of the clyuster.
• Programming using message passing
  • MPI is implemented on top of sockets to program parralel application. Kerrighed can setup USE_INTRA_CLUSTER_KERSTREAM capability to create KERNET sockets.

Reference

IRISA/INRIA, Kerrighed User's Manual, 2005