Hybrid/Heterogeneous Programming with OmpSs and its Software/Hardware Implications

Eduard Ayguade, Rosa M. Badia, Pieter Bellens, Javier Bueno, Alejandro Duran, Yoav Etsion, Montse Farreras, Roger Ferrer, Jesus Labarta, Vladimir Marjanovic, Lluis Martinell, Xavier Martorell, Josep M. Perez, Judit Planas, Alex Ramirez, Xavier Teruel, Ioanna Tsalouchidou, Mateo Valero

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Abstract

This chapter describes how OmpSs extends the OpenMP 3.0 node programming model and how it leverages message passing interface (MPI) and OpenCL/CUDA, mastering the efficient programming of the clustered heterogeneous multi-/many-core systems that will be available in current and future computing systems. It describes the language extensions and the implementation of OmpSs, focusing on the intelligence that needs to be embedded in the runtime system to effectively lower the programmability wall and the opportunities to implement new mechanisms and policies. The chapter reasons about the overheads related with task management (detecting intertask data dependencies, identifying task-level parallelism and executing tasks out of order) in OmpSs examining how far a software implementation can go to cope with fine-grain parallelism and opening the door to novel hardware mechanisms for emerging multicore architectures. The chapter provides a brief description of the OmpSs execution model to understand the programming model extensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgramming Multicore and Many-Core Computing Systems
Pages99-120
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781119332015
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jan 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Clustered heterogeneous multi-/many-core systems
  • Computing systems
  • Message passing interface
  • Multicore architectures
  • OmpSs execution model
  • OpenCL/CUDA
  • OpenMP 3.0 node programming model
  • Programming model extensions
  • Task management

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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