Distributed programming using AGAPIA

As distributed applications became more commonplace and more sophisticated, new programming languages and models for distributed programming were created. The main scope of most of these languages was to simplify the process of development by a providing a higher expressivity. This paper presents another programming language for distributed computing named AGAPIA. Its main purpose is to provide an increased expressiveness while keeping the performance close to a core programming language. To demonstrate its capabilities the paper shows the implementations of some well-known patterns specific to distribute programming along with a comparison to the corresponding MPI implementation. A complete application is presented by combining a few patterns. By taking advantage of the transparent communication model and high level statements and patterns intended to simplify the development process, the implementation of distributed programs become modular, easier to write, in clear and closer to the original solution formulation.