SGL: towards a bridging model for heterogeneous hierarchical platforms. (1st January 2012)
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- Title:
- SGL: towards a bridging model for heterogeneous hierarchical platforms. (1st January 2012)
- Main Title:
- SGL: towards a bridging model for heterogeneous hierarchical platforms
- Authors:
- Li, Chong
Hains, Gaétan - Abstract:
- This paper introduces the Scatter-Gather parallel-programming and parallel execution model in the form of a simple imperative Scatter-Gather Language (SGL). Its design is based on past experience with bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) programming and BSP language design. SGL's novel features are motivated by the last decade's move towards multi-level and heterogeneous parallel architectures involving multi-core processors, graphics accelerators and hierarchical routing networks in the largest multiprocessing systems. The design of SGL is coherent with L. Valiant's multi-BSP while offering a programming interface that is even simpler than the primitives of bulk-synchronous parallel ML (BSML). SGL appears to cover a large subset of all BSP algorithms while avoiding complex message-passing programming. Like all BSP-inspired systems, it supports predictable, portable and scalable performance. Moreover, SGL's explicit data distribution will allow automatic or programmable load-balancing.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 7:Number 2(2012)
- Journal:
- International journal of high performance computing and networking
- Issue:
- Volume 7:Number 2(2012)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 2 (2012)
- Year:
- 2012
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2012-0007-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 139
- Page End:
- 151
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01-01
- Subjects:
- programming environment -- scalable parallel computing -- hierarchical and heterogeneous architectures -- performance prediction -- bridging model -- bulk-synchronous parallel -- scatter-gather language -- high performance computing
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