학술논문

Programming models and system software for future high-end computing systems: work-in-progress
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Parallel and distributed processing Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. International. :8 pp. 2003
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
System software
Computer architecture
High performance computing
Program processors
Yarn
Application software
Concurrent computing
Delay
Parallel processing
Multithreading
Language
ISSN
1530-2075
Abstract
Future high-end computers which promise very high performance require sophisticated program execution models and languages in order to deal with very high latencies across the memory hierarchy and to exploit massive parallelism. This paper presents our progress in an ongoing research toward this goal. Specifically we develop a suitable program execution model, a high-level programming notation which shields the application developer from the complexities of the architecture, and a compiler and runtime system based on the underlying models. In particular, we propose fine-grain multithreading and thread percolation as key components of our program execution model. We investigate implementing these models and systems on novel architectures such as the HTMT architecture and IBM's Blue Gene. Also, we report early performance prediction of thread percolation and its impact on execution time.