A Microservice Approach for a Cellular Automata Parallel Programming Environment

Q3 Computer Science

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.entcs.2020.02.016

Aurelio Vivas , John Sanabria

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Abstract

This paper presents an architecture for a parallel programming environment designed to assist the process of writing parallel programs. The proposed architecture allows the integration of several tools such as parallel programming skeletons and parallelizing compilers, among others. On the one hand, parallel programming skeletons simplify the design of parallel algorithms. On the other hand, parallelizing compilers rely on compiler capabilities to translate sequential programs into ones capable of using multiple processing units (CPU/GPU) found in personal computers (PCs). The technological solution presented in this work follows a microservices-oriented approach. This approach eases the integration of new parallel programming tools in the existing deployment through well-known protocols and existing services. We show how the aforementioned parallel programming tools were integrated to support the coding and parallelization of a general purpose cellular automata. Since the parallelization rely on the capabilities underlying to each tool, the focus of this work is not to deal with an efficient cellular automata parallelization. Instead, a promising microservice approach to the development of an extensible and scalable parallel programming environment is presented.

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元胞自动机并行编程环境的微服务方法

本文提出了一个并行编程环境的体系结构，旨在帮助编写并行程序的过程。所建议的体系结构允许集成多个工具，例如并行编程框架和并行编译器等。一方面，并行编程框架简化了并行算法的设计。另一方面，并行编译器依靠编译器的能力将顺序程序转换为能够使用个人计算机(pc)中的多个处理单元(CPU/GPU)的程序。本文提出的技术解决方案遵循面向微服务的方法。这种方法简化了通过知名协议和现有服务在现有部署中集成新的并行编程工具。我们展示了如何集成上述并行编程工具来支持通用元胞自动机的编码和并行化。由于并行化依赖于每个工具的底层功能，因此本工作的重点不是处理有效的元胞自动机并行化。相反，提出了一种有前途的微服务方法来开发可扩展和可伸缩的并行编程环境。

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