Mitrion-C Application Development on SGI Altix 350/RC100

Author

Kindratenko, Volodymyr V. ; Brunner, Robert J. ; Myers, Adam D.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana

fYear

2007

fDate

23-25 April 2007

Firstpage

239

Lastpage

250

Abstract

This paper provides an evaluation of SGIreg RASC^TM RC100 technology from a computational science software developer´s perspective. A brute force implementation of a two-point angular correlation function is used as a test case application. The computational kernel of this test case algorithm is ported to the Mitrion-C programming language and compiled, targeting the RC100 hardware. We explore several code optimization techniques and report performance results for different designs. We conclude the paper with an analysis of this system based on our observations while implementing the test case. Overall, the hardware platform and software development tools were found to be satisfactory for accelerating computationally intensive applications, however, several system improvements are desirable.

Keywords

C language; operating system kernels; optimising compilers; program testing; software engineering; Mitrion-C application development; Mitrion-C programming language; SGI Altix 350/RC100; code optimization technique; computational kernel; computational science software developer perspective; program compiler; test case algorithm; test case application; two-point angular correlation function; Acceleration; Application software; Computer applications; Computer languages; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel; Microprocessors; Software tools; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007. FCCM 2007. 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Napa, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2940-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCCM.2007.17

Filename

4297260