Global Arrays, or GA, is the library developed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for parallel computing. GA provides a friendly API for shared-memory programming on distributed-memory computers for multidimensional arrays. The GA library is a predecessor to the GAS (global address space) languages currently being developed for high-performance computing.
The GA toolkit has additional libraries including a memory allocator, ARMCI, and functionality for out-of-core storage of arrays (ChemIO). Although GA was initially developed to run with TCGMSG, a message communicator that came before the MPI standard (Message Passing Interface), it is now fully compatible with MPI. GA includes simple matrix computations (matrix-matrix multiplication, LU solve) and works with ScaLAPACK. Sparse matrices are available but the implementation is not optimal yet.
GA was developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The GA library is incorporated into many quantum chemistry packages, including NWChem, MOLPRO, UTChem and MOLCAS.
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