SCL-Chan: an asynchronous data-parallel language for irregular algorithms

Parallelism suffers from a lack of programming languages both simple to handle and able to take advantage of the power of present parallel computers. If parallelism expression is too high level, compilers have to perform complex optimizations leading often to poor performances. One the other hand, t...

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Published in:High-Level Programming Models and Supportive Environments, 2nd Workshop (HIPS '97 pp. 64 - 71
Main Authors: Melin, E., Raffin, B., Rebeuf, X., Virot, B.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 1997
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Communication system control
Computer architecture
Computer languages
Concurrent computing
Optimizing compilers
Parallel processing
Parallel programming
Programming profession
System recovery
ISBN:9780818678820, 0818678828
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Summary:Parallelism suffers from a lack of programming languages both simple to handle and able to take advantage of the power of present parallel computers. If parallelism expression is too high level, compilers have to perform complex optimizations leading often to poor performances. One the other hand, too low level parallelism transfers difficulties toward the programmer. We propose a programming language that integrates both a synchronous data parallel programming model and an asynchronous execution model. The synchronous data parallel programming model allows safe program design. The asynchronous execution model yields an efficient execution on present MIMD architectures without any program transformation. Our language relies an logical instruction ordering exploited by specific send/receive communications. It allows one to express only the effective data dependences between processors. This ability is enforced by a possible send/receive unmatching, useful for irregular algorithms. A sparse vector computation exemplifies our language potentialities.
ISBN:9780818678820
0818678828
DOI:10.1109/HIPS.1997.582957