Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT

Bonachea, Dan; Hargrove, Paul H.; Welcome, Michael; Yelick, Katherine

Title: Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT

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Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Languages are an emerging alternative to MPI for HPC applications development. The GASNet library from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of California at Berkeley provides the network runtime for multiple implementations of four PGAS Languages: Unified Parallel C (UPC), Co-Array Fortran (CAF), Titanium and Chapel. GASNet provides a low overhead one-sided communication layer has enabled portability and high performance of PGAS languages. This paper describes our experiences porting GASNet to the Portals network API on the Cray XT series.

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Bonachea, Dan ^[1]; Hargrove, Paul H. ^[1]; Welcome, Michael ^[2]; Yelick, Katherine ^[1]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2009-05-04

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

OSTI Identifier:: 1407075

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Cray Users Group (CUG 2009), Atlanta, GA (United States), 4-7 May 2009

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; PGAS; UPC; Cray XT; Portals; GASNet

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                    Bonachea, Dan, Hargrove, Paul H., Welcome, Michael, and Yelick, Katherine. Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT.  United States: N. p., 2009. 
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                    Bonachea, Dan, Hargrove, Paul H., Welcome, Michael, & Yelick, Katherine. Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT.  United States.

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                    Bonachea, Dan, Hargrove, Paul H., Welcome, Michael, and Yelick, Katherine. 2009.  
        "Porting GASNet to Portals: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Language Support for the Cray XT".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1407075.

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  abstractNote = {Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Languages are an emerging alternative to MPI for HPC applications development. The GASNet library from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of California at Berkeley provides the network runtime for multiple implementations of four PGAS Languages: Unified Parallel C (UPC), Co-Array Fortran (CAF), Titanium and Chapel. GASNet provides a low overhead one-sided communication layer has enabled portability and high performance of PGAS languages. This paper describes our experiences porting GASNet to the Portals network API on the Cray XT series.},

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