Formal Semantics for the DRMA Programming Style Subset of the BSPlib Library

Julien Tesson (1) , Frédéric Loulergue (1)

1 LIFO - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans

BSPlib is a programming library for C and Fortran which supports bulk synchronous parallelism (BSP). This paper is about a formal semantics for the DRMA programming style of the BSPlib library. The aim is to study the behavior of BSPlib programs and to propose some syntactic characterizations used to provide guarantees on semantic properties. This work is the basis for future tools dedicated to the validation of BSPlib programs.

Julien Tesson, Frédéric Loulergue. Formal Semantics for the DRMA Programming Style Subset of the BSPlib Library. Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007), Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models, Sep 2007, Gdansk, Poland. pp.1122-1129, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-68111-3_119⟩. ⟨inria-00452540⟩