Gaspar: a compositional aspect‐oriented approach for cluster applications. (7th October 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Medeiros, B.; Silva, R.; Sobral, J. L.
• Other Names: Silla Federico guestEditor.; Fröning Holger guestEditor.; Senger Hermes guestEditor.; Geyer Claudio guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Concurrency and computation. Volume 28:Number 8(2016)
• Page Start: 2353
• Page End: 2373
• Publication Date: 2015-10-07
• Subjects: aspect‐oriented programming -- Java -- GPU -- hierarchical/hybrid parallelism; Parallel processing (Electronic computers) -- Periodicals; Parallel computers -- Periodicals; 004.35
• DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3666
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-0626

Abstract

Summary: This paper presents a framework that enables the development of Java applications that execute on CPUs, graphics processing units (GPUs) and clusters of CPUs/GPUs. Applications are specified in an OpenMP‐like fashion, accessing data through a framework‐provided data API. The framework enables the efficient execution of applications in CPU and/or GPU by relying on two key features: (i) parallelism exploitation patterns are specified by additional aspect modules; and (ii) data layout can be selected according to the target platform. This paper describes how the framework abstractions are mapped and how the framework intrinsically supports the development of applications with hybrid parallelism by composing aspect modules with a given base program. Performance results show that the framework provides a performance level similar to traditional approaches and enables better performance portability for a given base program. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.