Design for interoperability in STAPL: PMatrices and linear algebra algorithms

Antal A. Buss, Timmie G. Smith, Gabriel Tanase, Nathan L. Thomas, Mauro Bianco, Nancy M. Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger

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Abstract

The Standard Template Adaptive Parallel Library (stapl) is a high-productivity parallel programming framework that extends C++ and stl with unified support for shared and distributed memory parallelism. stapl provides distributed data structures (pContainers) and parallel algorithms (pAlgorithms) and a generic methodology for extending them to provide customized functionality. To improve productivity and performance, it is essential for stapl to exploit third party libraries, including those developed in programming languages other than C++. In this paper we describe a methodology that enables third party libraries to be used with stapl. This methodology allows a developer to specify when these specialized libraries can correctly be used, and provides mechanisms to transparently invoke them when appropriate. It also provides support for using stapl pAlgorithms and pContainers in external codes. As a concrete example, we illustrate how third party libraries, namely BLAS and PBLAS, can be transparently embedded into stapl to provide efficient linear algebra algorithms for the stapl pMatrix, with negligible slowdown with respect to the optimized libraries themselves.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLanguages and Compilers for Parallel Computing - 21st International Workshop, LCPC 2008, Revised Selected Papers
Pages304-315
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2008 - Edmonton, AB, Canada
Duration: Jul 31 2008Aug 2 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5335 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other21st International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityEdmonton, AB
Period7/31/088/2/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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