Microtasking as a complement to macrotasking

DOI10.1016/0167-8191(88)90119-6MaRDI QIDQ1110318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 1988

Published in Parallel Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8191(88)90119-6

zbMATH Keywords

CRAY X-MPmacrotaskingmicrotaskingmultitaskingreproducibilitytasks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of operating systems (68N25) Theory of software (68N99)

Review text

The ECMWF weather model runs daily as a time critical application. Acceptable elapsed times are achieved by multitasking the code on a CRAY X-MP/48. This is done at a high level giving rise to large tasks. Investigations have been carried out to tackle inefficiencies by microtasking at a low level so that the code can take advantage of any idle processors which may become available.

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