Presentation
Hans Meuer Award Finalist 2: Global Task Data Dependencies in PGAS Applications
Event Type
Hans Meuer Award Finalists
Research Paper
MPI
Programming Models & Languages
System Software & Runtime Systems
TimeMonday, June 17th4:50pm - 5:30pm
LocationPanorama 1
DescriptionRecent years have seen the emergence of two independent programming models challenging the traditional two-tier combination of message passing and thread-level work-sharing: partitioned global address space (PGAS) and task-based concurrency. In the PGAS programming model, synchronization and communication between processes are decoupled, providing significant potential for reducing communication overhead. At the same time, task-based programming allows to exploit a large degree of shared-memory concurrency. The inherent lack of fine-grained synchronization in PGAS can be addressed through fine-grained task synchronization across process boundaries. In this work, we propose the use of task data dependencies describing the data-flow in the global address space to synchronize the execution of tasks created in parallel on multiple processes. We present a description of the global data dependencies, describe the necessary interactions between the distributed scheduler instances required to handle them, and discuss our implementation in the context of the DASH C++ PGAS framework. We evaluate our approach using the Blocked Cholesky Factorization and the LULESH proxy app, demonstrating the feasibility and scalability of our approach.
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