| 43 | | * 14h00-15h00 ''Invited Talk'': Joel Falcou, '''Costless Software Abstractions for Parallel Architectures'''[[BR]]Performing large, intensive or non-trivial computing on array like data structures is one of the most common task in scientific computing, video game development and other fields. This matter of fact is backed up by the large number of tools, languages and libraries to perform such tasks. If we restrict ourselves to C++ based solutions, more than a dozen such libraries exists from BLAS/LAPACK C++ binding to template meta-programming based Blitz++ or Eigen. If all of these libraries provide good performance or good abstraction, none of them seems to fit the need of so many different user types. Moreover, as parallel system complexity grows, the need to maintain all those components quickly become unwieldy. This talk explores various software design techniques and their application to the implementation of a parallel computing librariy in such a way that:[[BR]]- abstraction and expressiveness are maximized through the use of Parallel Skeletons[[BR]]- cost over efficiency is minimized thanks to Generative Programming[[BR]]- architecture specific hints are used throughout the whole library thanks to architecture aware tag dispatching[[BR]]We'll skim over various applications and see how they can benefit from such tools. We will conclude by discussing what lessons were learnt from this kind of implementation and how those lessons can translate into new directions for the C++ language itself and for the design of future Parallel Skeletons. |
| | 45 | * 14h15-15h30 ''Invited Talk'': Joel Falcou, '''Costless Software Abstractions for Parallel Architectures'''[[BR]]Performing large, intensive or non-trivial computing on array like data structures is one of the most common task in scientific computing, video game development and other fields. This matter of fact is backed up by the large number of tools, languages and libraries to perform such tasks. If we restrict ourselves to C++ based solutions, more than a dozen such libraries exists from BLAS/LAPACK C++ binding to template meta-programming based Blitz++ or Eigen. If all of these libraries provide good performance or good abstraction, none of them seems to fit the need of so many different user types. Moreover, as parallel system complexity grows, the need to maintain all those components quickly become unwieldy. This talk explores various software design techniques and their application to the implementation of a parallel computing librariy in such a way that:[[BR]]- abstraction and expressiveness are maximized through the use of Parallel Skeletons[[BR]]- cost over efficiency is minimized thanks to Generative Programming[[BR]]- architecture specific hints are used throughout the whole library thanks to architecture aware tag dispatching[[BR]]We'll skim over various applications and see how they can benefit from such tools. We will conclude by discussing what lessons were learnt from this kind of implementation and how those lessons can translate into new directions for the C++ language itself and for the design of future Parallel Skeletons. |
| 51 | | * 16h50-17h30: Shigeyuki Sato, Kiminori Matsuzaki, '''A Generic Implementation of Tree Skeletons'''[[BR]]In data-parallel skeleton libraries, the implementation of skeletons is usually tightly-coupled with that of data structures. However, a loose coupling between both like C++ STL will improve modularity and flexibility of skeletons and data structures. This flexibility is particularly valuable for tree skeletons. To achieve such a loose coupling, we present an iterator-based interface of trees for tree skeletons. We have implemented tree skeletons on the basis of our interface; we present their design and implementation. This paper also reports the results of preliminary experiments. |
| | 52 | * 16h40-17h20: Joeffrey Légaux, Noman Javed, Sylvain Jubertie, and Frédéric Loulergue, '''OSL: The Orléans Skeleton Library'''[[BR]]Structured parallel models such as algorithmic skeletons offer a global view of the parallel program in contrast with the fragmented view of the SPMD style. This makes program easier to write and to read for users, and offer additional opportunities for optimisation done by the libraries, compilers and/or run-time systems. Algorithmic skeletons are or can be seen as patterns or higher-order functions implemented in parallel, often manipulating distributed data structures. Orléans Skeleton Library (OSL) is a library of parallel algorithmic skeletons, written in C++ on top of MPI, which uses meta-programming techniques for optimisation. This talk will present the recent work on OSL: skeletons used to manage arbitrary distributions of distributed arrays, support for BSP homomorphisms, an exception mechanism that ensures the global coherence of the system after exceptions are caught. |
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| | 54 | * 17h20-10h00: Shigeyuki Sato, Kiminori Matsuzaki, '''A Generic Implementation of Tree Skeletons'''[[BR]]In data-parallel skeleton libraries, the implementation of skeletons is usually tightly-coupled with that of data structures. However, a loose coupling between both like C++ STL will improve modularity and flexibility of skeletons and data structures. This flexibility is particularly valuable for tree skeletons. To achieve such a loose coupling, we present an iterator-based interface of trees for tree skeletons. We have implemented tree skeletons on the basis of our interface; we present their design and implementation. This paper also reports the results of preliminary experiments. |
| 63 | | * 11h10-11h50: Thomas Pinsard, Frédéric Dabrowski, Frédéric Loulergue, '''Nested Atomic Sections with Thread Escape: From a Formal Definition to Verified Compilation'''[[BR]]We consider a simple imperative language with fork/join parallelism and lexically scoped nested atomic sections from which threads can escape. In this context, our contribution is the precise definition of atomicity, well-synchronisation on execution traces and the proof that the latter implies the strong form of the former. Then we define the formal operational semantics of this language that satisfies these specifications. |
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| 65 | | * 11h50-12h30: Sylvain Dailler, Frédéric Dabrowski, '''Modular Verified Compilation for Parallel Languages'''[[BR]]We will present our attempts at providing extensions to an existing verified compiler of parallel languages. These extensions were designed to allow high-level synchronization primitives and therefore be a possible target for the compilation of algorithmic skeletons. We will show that we can adapt the semantics and proofs of correctness in a modular way which should help us to easily change both the memory model and/or the synchronizations primitives of the languages (in a limited way) without changing the whole compiler specifications and proofs. |
| | 66 | * 11h30-12h10: Thomas Pinsard, Frédéric Dabrowski, Frédéric Loulergue, '''Nested Atomic Sections with Thread Escape: From a Formal Definition to Verified Compilation'''[[BR]]We consider a simple imperative language with fork/join parallelism and lexically scoped nested atomic sections from which threads can escape. In this context, our contribution is the precise definition of atomicity, well-synchronisation on execution traces and the proof that the latter implies the strong form of the former. Then we define the formal operational semantics of this language that satisfies these specifications. |
