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Welcome to the AllScale API wiki, your main source for information, tutorials, and HowTos for building efficient parallel applications -- according to our project's objective:

To enable developers to be productive and to port their applications to any scale of system.

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Table of Contents:

• Basics:
  • Quickstart - get yourself a running example in 2 minutes
  • The Big Picture - an overview on the AllScale environment
  • Installation - all you need to know to get started
  • Execution - fun with binaries
  • Profiling - get to know the nature of your application
  • Learning C/C++ - references to C/C++ learning material
• Tutorials:
  • Matrix Multiplication - the one parallel code everybody understands
  • Heat Stencil - how to write a simple stencil based heat equation solver
  • Unstructured Multi-Grid Meshes - getting interesting
  • Nested Recursive Parallelism - our speciality
  • Simulation with AdaptiveGrid - how to simulate using refineable grids
  • Structured IO - since without it, there is no point of doing anything
• Advanced Topics:
  • The prec Operator - one to rule them all
  • Treetures - orchestrating recursive tasks
  • Data Items - going deep into the rabbit's hole
• Reference:
  • Overview - a brief introduction of the goods and services
  • Utilities:
    • Bag - an unordered set of elements
    • Vector - exactly what you expect, with an arbitrary number of dimensions
  • Data Structures:
    • StaticGrid - n-dimensional, regular, statically-sized grids
    • Grid - n-dimensional, regular, dynamically-sized grids
    • AdaptiveGrid - just like Grids, but refineable
    • Mesh - everything that doesn't fit in a grid
  • Operators:
    • Pfor - parallel loops, what else?
    • Stencil - stencil operator for PDEs on grids
    • VCycle - solving PDEs on meshes