{"title":"Programmability and Performance of New Global-View Programming API for Multi-Node and Multi-Core Processing","authors":"Yugo Sakaguchi, H. Midorikawa","doi":"10.1109/PACRIM47961.2019.8985126","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Various partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages capable of providing global-view programming environments on multi-node computer systems have been proposed to improve programming productivity in high-performance computing. However, several PGAS languages often require a detailed description of the remote data access, similar to descriptions used in message passing interface one-sided communications. Some PGAS languages have limitations pertaining to remote data access and recommend their local-view programming models, rather than the global-view ones, due to performance-related reasons. In this study, we propose SMint, which is an application programming interface that provides a global-view programming model with a software distributed shared memory mSMS as the runtime. Using stencil computation as a typical processing method, the performance and programmability of SMint have been compared with those of XcalableMP and Unified Parallel C, which are well-known examples of PGAS languages based on the C language. It was found that SMint achieved the best performance under the ideal global-view programming model.","PeriodicalId":152556,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2019 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACRIM47961.2019.8985126","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Various partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages capable of providing global-view programming environments on multi-node computer systems have been proposed to improve programming productivity in high-performance computing. However, several PGAS languages often require a detailed description of the remote data access, similar to descriptions used in message passing interface one-sided communications. Some PGAS languages have limitations pertaining to remote data access and recommend their local-view programming models, rather than the global-view ones, due to performance-related reasons. In this study, we propose SMint, which is an application programming interface that provides a global-view programming model with a software distributed shared memory mSMS as the runtime. Using stencil computation as a typical processing method, the performance and programmability of SMint have been compared with those of XcalableMP and Unified Parallel C, which are well-known examples of PGAS languages based on the C language. It was found that SMint achieved the best performance under the ideal global-view programming model.