Design issues in the semantics and scheduling of asynchronous tasks.

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1092998· OSTI ID:1092998

Olivier, Stephen L.

The asynchronous task model serves as a useful vehicle for shared memory parallel programming, particularly on multicore and manycore processors. As adoption of model among programmers has increased, support has emerged for the integration of task parallel language constructs into mainstream programming languages, e.g., C and C++. This paper examines some of the design decisions in Cilk and OpenMP concerning semantics and scheduling of asynchronous tasks with the aim of informing the efforts of committees considering language integration, as well as developers of new task parallel languages and libraries.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1092998
• Report Number(s): SAND2013-5748; 463320
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English