ScalaPipe: A Streaming Application Generator

Author

Wingbermuehle, Joseph G. ; Chamberlain, Roger D. ; Cytron, Ron K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ. in St. LouisWashington, St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

10-11 July 2012

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

53

Abstract

ScalaPipe is a streaming application generator for heterogeneous platforms. By using a collection of domain-specific languages (DSLs) embedded in the Scala programming language, ScalaPipe allows creation of streaming applications that can run on a variety of hardware, including traditional processors, graphics processors, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Its application DSL allows specification of the application topology and resource mapping. Its block DSL allows the authoring of implementations for processing kernels, or blocks, which are used in the streaming application. ScalaPipe makes it easy to generate, modify, and instrument large, complex topologies and resource mappings while also exposing optimization opportunities.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; graphics processing units; parallel languages; parallel programming; resource allocation; FPGA; Scala programming language; ScalaPipe; application DSL; application topology; block DSL; domain-specific languages; field programmable gate arrays; graphics processors; heterogeneous platforms; optimization; resource mapping; streaming application generator; Block codes; DSL; Field programmable gate arrays; Graphics; Hardware design languages; Program processors; Topology; domain-specific languages; heterogeneous platforms; streaming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC), 2012 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago IL

ISSN

2166-5133

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2882-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAAHPC.2012.14

Filename

6319190