Accelerating code on multi-cores with fastflow

Authors:
Marco Aldinucci;Marco Danelutto;Peter Kilpatrick;Massimiliano Meneghin;Massimo Torquati
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy;Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy;Computer Science Department, Queen's University Belfast, UK;IBM Dublin Research Lab, Ireland;Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy
Venue:
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing - Volume Part II
Year:
2011

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Abstract

FastFlow is a programming framework specifically targeting cache-coherent shared-memory multi-cores. It is implemented as a stack of C++ template libraries built on top of lock-free (and memory fence free) synchronization mechanisms. Its philosophy is to combine programmability with performance. In this paper a new FastFlow programming methodology aimed at supporting parallelization of existing sequential code via offloading onto a dynamically created software accelerator is presented. The new methodology has been validated using a set of simple micro-benchmarks and some real applications.