{"title":"Local and Global Shared Memory for Task Based HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms","authors":"Chao Liu, M. Leeser","doi":"10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00055","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With the prevalence of multicore and manycore processors, developing parallel applications to bene?t from massively parallel resources is important. In this work, we introduce a hybrid shared memory mechanism based on a high-level task design. We implemented task scoped global shared data based on the one-sided communication feature of MPI-3 and enable users to implement and create multi-threaded tasks that can execute either on a single node or on multiple nodes. Task threads of distributed nodes can share data sets through global shared data objects using one-sided remote memory access. We ported and developed a set of benchmark applications and tested on a cluster platform. The high-level task design and hybrid shared memory help users develop and maintain parallel programs easily, and the results show that the global shared data can deliver good RMA performance; the multi-threaded task implementations perform up to 20% faster than ordinary OpenMP programs and have better scaling performance than MPI programs on multiple nodes.","PeriodicalId":333367,"journal":{"name":"2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PDP2018.2018.00055","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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With the prevalence of multicore and manycore processors, developing parallel applications to bene?t from massively parallel resources is important. In this work, we introduce a hybrid shared memory mechanism based on a high-level task design. We implemented task scoped global shared data based on the one-sided communication feature of MPI-3 and enable users to implement and create multi-threaded tasks that can execute either on a single node or on multiple nodes. Task threads of distributed nodes can share data sets through global shared data objects using one-sided remote memory access. We ported and developed a set of benchmark applications and tested on a cluster platform. The high-level task design and hybrid shared memory help users develop and maintain parallel programs easily, and the results show that the global shared data can deliver good RMA performance; the multi-threaded task implementations perform up to 20% faster than ordinary OpenMP programs and have better scaling performance than MPI programs on multiple nodes.