Support For HP Unified Parallel C

This release provides support for the HP Unified Parallel C (UPC) application development environment.

HP UPC is a parallel extension of the C programming language, which runs on both common types of multiprocessor systems: those with a common global address space (such as SMP) and those with distributed memory. UPC provides a simple shared memory model for parallel programming, allowing data to be shared or distributed among a number of communicating processors. Constructs are provided in the language to permit simple declaration of shared data, distribute shared data across threads, and synchronize access to shared data across threads. This model promises significantly easier coding of parallel applications and maximum performance across shared memory, distributed memory, and hybrid systems.

See the following Web page for more information about HP UPC:

http://www.hp.com/go/upc