Contents

• Abstract
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
  • Component Architectures
  • Limitations of Current Component Architectures
  • Charisma Approach
    • Common Language Runtime
    • A Common Interface Model
    • Simplifying Component Development
    • Migration Path
  • Contributions of thesis
• Converse: A Message-Driven Runtime for Charisma
  • Interoperability among parallel languages
    • Concurrency within a Process
    • Control Regime
  • Design of Converse
    • Generalized Message Scheduling
    • Converse Machine Interface
    • Threads
    • Dynamic load balancing
    • Utilities
  • An Example Language Implementation
  • Performance
  • Language Implementations
  • An Application of Multilingual Programming
  • Related Work
    • Tulip
    • Nexus
    • Active Messages and Variants
    • Optimistic Active Messages
    • Chant
    • DMCS
• Charisma Interface Model
  • Charm++
  • Limitations of Interfaces based on Object models
  • Charisma Interface Model
  • Dynamic Component Creation
  • Prototype Implementation
  • Port Examples
• Intra-component Coordination
  • Motivating Example
  • Threaded Coordination
  • Structured Dagger
    • Structured Constructs
    • Implementation
    • Inadequacy of Structured Dagger
    • Related Work
• Migration Path: Adaptive MPI
  • Overhead of Threaded Components
  • Obstacles to Migration
  • Conversion to AMPI
  • Charisma interfaces in AMPI
  • AMPI Performance
• Conclusion and Future Work
  • Future Work: Adaptive MPI
  • Future Work: Charisma
    • Runtime Optimizations
    • Dynamic Loading
    • Substitution
    • Reflection
    • Performance Characteristics
    • Component Frameworks
• Bibliography
• Vita
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