Bug#603711: ITP: ga -- Global Arrays Toolkit

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>


* Package name    : ga
  Version         : 5.0
  Upstream Author : Global Arrays Team
* URL             : http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global
* License         : GA License (BSD-like, see below)
  Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
  Description     : Global Arrays Toolkit

The Global Arrays Toolkit consists of the following:

GA (Global Arrays) is a portable Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
shared-memory programming environment for distributed and shared memory
computers. It augments the message-passing model by providing a
shared-memory like access to distributed dense arrays.

ARMCI (Aggregate Remote Memory Copy Interface) provides one-sided remote
memory operations used by GA.

DRA (Disk Resident Arrays) is a parallel I/O library that maintains
dense 2-dim arrays on disk.

SF (Shared Files) is a parallel I/O library that allows noncollective
I/O to a parallel file.

EAF (Exclusive Access Files) is parallel I/O library that supports I/O
to private files.

TCGMSG is a simple, efficient, but becoming obsolete message-passing
library.

TCGMSG-MPI is a TCGMSG interface implementation on top of MPI and ARMCI.

MA is a dynamic memory allocator/manager for Fortran and C programs.

GA++ is a C++ binding for global arrays.

Three libraries are built, libga, libga++ and libarmci.

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