Home > Archives > Additional Archives > Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow   Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow Universitaet Stuttgart Institut fuer Informatik burow@ifh.de http://www-zeus.desy.de/~funnel/TSIA/index.htm TSIA: Advancing Towards Transparent Parallelism   SETI@home, entropia.com and parabon.com are systems which execute an application using millions of computers on the Internet. Smaller similar systems are decades old. The systems are best for bag-of-tasks applications. Example applications include the simulation of independent trials, the processing of independent media frames and the evaluation of independent candidate solutions. The above systems provide transparent parallelism. The details of the parallel execution are in the system, not in the application code. This achievement of transparent parallelism for a bag-of-tasks application can be generalized to other applications. The generalization is a form of graph reduction or dataflow. The pioneering implementations are the early versions of MIT's Cilk. Further generalization and simplification yields TSIA: a promising model for simple and efficient transparent parallelism.
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