Parallel Computing History At Illinois
Illinois history in parallel computing stretches more than 40 years. From the first academic parallel supercomputer, the ILLIAC IV started in 1964, to today’s work to install the first petascale computer, Blue Waters, Illinois has defined the landscape of parallel computing. Contributions from past and current Illinois faculty include:
- ILLIAC
- CEDAR
- Illinois Cache Coherence (MESI) Protocol
- OpenMP
- MPI
- Path Pascal
- Actors
- Java and C++ memory models
- Compilers and auto-parallelization techniques – Analyzer, Polaris, Parafrase, IMPACT, LLVM
- Race detection techniques
- Parallel runtime systems – Chare Kernel, Charm++
- IBM/DARPA PERCS – a precursor to IBM’s Power 7
- AVIO to detect atomicity violations
- Parallel programming patterns
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