Title :
Auto-generation of Parallel Finite-Differencing Code for MPI, TBB and CUDA
Author :
Playne, D.P. ; Hawick, K.A.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci., Massey Univ., Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract :
Finite-difference methods can be useful for solving certain partial differential equations (PDEs) in the time domain. Compiler technologies can be used to parse an application domain specific representation of these PDEs and build an abstract representation of both the equation and the desired solver. This abstract representation can be used to generate a language-specific implementation. We show how this framework can be used to generate software for several parallel platforms: Message Passing Interface (MPI), Threading Building Blocks(TBB) and Compute Unified Device Architecture(CUDA). We present performance data of the automatically-generated parallel code and discuss the implications of the generator in terms of code portability, development time and maintainability.
Keywords :
finite difference methods; mathematics computing; message passing; parallel processing; partial differential equations; CUDA; MPI; TBB; abstract representation; auto-generation; code portability; compiler technologies; compute unified device architecture; development time; language-specific implementation; maintainability; message passing interface; parallel finite-differencing code; parallel platforms; partial differential equations; threading building blocks; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Equations; Generators; Graphics processing unit; Instruction sets; Mathematical model;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-425-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-2075
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2011.265
