Extensible parallel architectural skeletons

Authors:
Mohammad Mursalin Akon;Ajit Singh;Dhrubajyoti Goswami;Hon Fung Li
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Venue:
HiPC'05 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on High Performance Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Complexity of parallel application development has been one of the major obstacles towards the mainstream adoption of parallel programming. In order to hide some of these complexities, researchers have been actively investigating the pattern-based approaches to parallel programming. As reusable components, patterns are intended to ease the design and development phases of parallel applications. Parallel Architectural Skeleton (PAS) is one such pattern-based parallel programming model which describes the architectural aspects of parallel patterns. Like many other pattern-based parallel programming models and tools, the benefits of PAS were offset by the difficulties in extending PAS. EPAS is an extension of PAS that addresses this issue. Using EPAS, a skeleton designer can design new skeletons and add them to the skeleton repository (i.e., extensibility). EPAS also makes the PAS model more flexible by defining composition of skeletons. In this paper, we describe the model of EPAS and also discuss some of the recent usability and performance studies. The studies demonstrate that EPAS is a practical and usable parallel programming model and tool.