Introduction - PAW 2017: The 2nd Annual PGAS Applications
Workshop
Author/Presenters
Event Type
Workshop
Applications
Effective Application of HPC
Parallel Programming Languages, Libraries, Models
and Notations
Performance
Programming Systems
SIGHPC Workshop
Scientific Computing
TimeMonday, November 13th9am -
9:05am
Location702
DescriptionIn order to manage the complexity of emerging
architectures and technologies, parallel programmers
require effective approaches for developing large-scale
applications that fully exploit these transformative
features. Ideally, such approaches should elevate the
programmer’s expression of the computation from
mechanism-specific abstractions (messages, kernels) to
higher-level abstractions, similar to how Fortran and C
permitted programmers to think in terms of variables
rather than registers. The Partitioned Global Address
Space (PGAS) family of programming models provides such
an approach. It simplifies the complexity of parallel
programming across distinct memories by making it more
similar to shared-memory computation, while enhancing
scalability by exposing data locality through its
semantics. This workshop will bring together
applications experts who will present concrete practical
examples to illustrate the benefits of exploiting PGAS
languages including Fortran, Unified Parallel C (UPC),
X10, and Chapel as well as libraries such as Unified
Parallel C++ (UPC++), Coarray C++, OpenSHMEM, MPI-3, and
Global Arrays.
