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Run-time and compile-time support for adaptive irregular problems

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OSTI ID:87615
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  1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
In adaptive irregular problems, data arrays are accessed via indirection arrays, and data access patterns change during computation. Parallelizing such problems on distributed memory machines requires support for dynamic data partitioning, efficient preprocessing and fast data migration. This paper describes CHAOS, a library of efficient runtime primitives that provides such support. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the runtime support, two adaptive irregular applications have been parallelized using CHAOS primitives: a molecular dynamics code (CHARMM) and a code for simulating gas flows (DSMC). The authors have also proposed minor extensions to Fortran D which would enable compilers to parallelize irregular for all loops in such adaptive applications by embedding calls to primitives provided by a runtime library. They have implemented their proposed extensions in the Syracuse Fortran 90D/HPF prototype compiler, and have used the compiler to parallelize kernels from two adaptive applications.
OSTI ID:
87615
Report Number(s):
CONF-941118--; ISBN 0-8186-6605-6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English