Vector prefix and reduction computation on coarse-grained, distributed-memory parallel machines

Vector prefix and reduction are collective communication primitives in which all processors must cooperate. The authors present two parallel algorithms, the direct algorithm and the split algorithm, for vector prefix and reduction computation on coarse-grained, distributed-memory parallel machines. The algorithms are relatively architecture independent and can be used effectively in many applications such as pack/unpack, array prefix/reduction functions, and array combining scatter functions, which are defined in Fortran 90 and in High Performance Fortran. Experimental results on the CM-5 are presented.