Reference

Implementations

The first full release of the Oxford BSP Toolset has been issued by Oxford Parallelat the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. This incorporates BSPlib implementations, conforming in all but a few minor timing details to the BSPlib defined by the new Reference Manual. The Toolset includes a wide range of native machine-specific and generic versions of BSPlib, a performance profiler, a call-graph performance tuning aid, parallel debugging support and BSP Benchmarking tools. As for the previous alpha and beta releases, sources and binaries are freely available by anonymous FTP. See

History of the BSPlib Proposals

The Initial Proposal for the BSP Worldwide Standard Library by Jonathan Hill and Bill McColl (Oxford University) was issued for comment. This was followed, on 10 April 1996 by a new document: A Proposal for the BSP Worldwide Standard Library (preliminary version) by Mark W. Goudreau, University of Central Florida. Jonathan M. D. Hill, Oxford University. Kevin Lang, NEC Research Institute (Princeton). Bill McColl, Oxford University. Satish B. Rao, NEC Research Institute (Princeton) and University of California at Berkeley. Dan C. Stefanescu, Harvard University. Torsten Suel, NEC Research Institute (Princeton) and University of California at Berkeley. Thanasis Tsantilas, Columbia University. It was open for comment throughout April 1996. In particular it was discussed at the BSP Worldwide meeting at HPCN'96 in Brussels on 17 April 1996.