Global array

Global Arrays, or GA, is the library developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for parallel computing. GA provides a friendly API for shared-memory programming on distributed-memory computers for multidimensional arrays. The GA library is a predecessor to the GAS (global address space) languages currently being developed for high-performance computing.

The GA toolkit has additional libraries including a memory allocator, ARMCI, and functionality for out-of-core storage of arrays (ChemIO). Although GA was initially developed to run with TCGMSG, a message communicator that came before the MPI standard, it is now fully compatible with MPI. GA includes simple matrix computations (matrix-matrix multiplication, LU solve) and works with ScaLAPACK. Sparse matrices are available but the implementation is not optimal yet.

GA was developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory by Jarek Nieplocha, Robert Harrison and R. J. Littlefield. The ChemIO library for out-of-core storage was developed by Jarek Nieplocha, Robert Harrison and Ian Foster.

The GA library is incorporated into many quantum chemistry packages, including NWChem, MOLPRO, UTChem and MOLCAS.

The GA toolkit is free software, licensed under a self-made license [ [http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global/license.html GA license] ] .

See also

* [http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global/ Global Arrays Webpage]

References

External links

* [http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global/ Global Arrays Home Page]
* [http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/parsoft/ Parsoft Home Page]