Classification of Parallel Programming Models and Tools On Multi Core Computers

We introduce a taxonomic study of parallel programming models on High-Performance architectures. We review the parallel architectures(shared and distributed memory), and then the development of the architectures through the emergence of the heterogeneous and hybrid parallel architectures. We review important parallel programming model as the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) model, as model for distributed memory architectures and the Data Flow model as model to heterogeneous and hybrid parallel programming. Finally we present several scenarios for the use of this taxonomic study.