This publication documents the SGI implementation of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) parallel extension to the C programming language standard.
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Material about UPC is available from a variety of sources. Some of these, particularly webpages, include pointers to other resources. Following is a list of these sources:
UPC: Distributed Shared Memory Programming
Authors: Tarek El-Ghazawi, William Carlson, Thomas Sterling, Katherine Yelick; ISBN: 0-471-22048-5 ; Published by John Wiley and Sons- May, 2005
Contains much information that is relevant to UPC.
http://upc.gwu.edu/docs/upc_specs_1.2.pdf
Contains the description of Version 1.2 of the UPC programming language.
http://upc.gwu.edu/downloads/Manual-1.2.pdf
Contains a discussion about the UPC language features.
sgiupc(1) man page
SGI Unified Parallel C (UPC) compiler man page describes the sgiupc(1) command. sgiupc is the front-end to the SGI UPC compiler suite. It handles all stages of the UPC compilation process: UPC language preprocessing, UPC-to-C translation, back- end C compilation, and linking with UPC runtime libraries.
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| Convention | Meaning | |
| command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. | |
| manpage(x) | Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names. | |
| variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. | |
| user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.) | |
| [ ] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. | |
| ... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated. |
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