A DSL for Integrative Parallel Programming

Author

Eijkhout, Victor

Author_Institution

Texas Adv. Comput. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

24-27 June 2014

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Parallel programming is commonly done through a library approach, as in the Message Passing Interface (MPI), directives, as in OpenMP, language extensions, as in High Performance Fortran (HPF), or whole new languages, as in Chapel. However, we argue that the concepts underlying these different programming systems show great commonality. Hence, we propose a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that expresses an abstraction of these common concepts. As we show by means of a prototype that uses both MPI and OpenMP tasks as backend, this common vocabulary can then be expressed in multiple parallelism types.

Keywords

FORTRAN; application program interfaces; message passing; parallel programming; software libraries; Chapel; DSL; HPF; MPI; OpenMP; domain-specific language; high performance Fortran; integrative parallel programming; library approach; message passing interface; multiple parallelism types; Distributed databases; Kernel; Parallel processing; Program processors; Programming; Vectors; Domain-specific language; Parallel programming; hybrid programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2014 IEEE 13th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Marseilles

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5918-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPDC.2014.36

Filename

6900197