An Integrated Runtime and Compile-Time Approach for Parallelizing Structured and Block Structured Applications
Abstract
Scientific and engineering applications often involve structured meshes. These meshes may be nested (for multigrid codes) and/or irregularly coupled (called multiblock or irregularly coupled regular mesh problems). In this paper, we present a combined runtime and compile-time approach for parallelizing these applications on distributed memory parallel machines in an efficient and machine-independent fashion. We have designed and implemented a runtime library which can be used to port these applications on distributed memory machines. The library is currently implemented on several different systems. To further ease the task of application programmers, we have developed methods for integrating this runtime library with compilers for HPF-like parallel programming languages. We discuss how we have integrated this runtime library with the Fortran 90D compiler being developed at Syracuse University. We present experimental results to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. We have experimented with a multiblock Navier-Stokes solver template and a multigrid code. Our experimental results show that our primitives have low runtime communication overheads. Further, the compiler parallelized codes perform within 20% of the code parallelized by manually inserting calls to the runtime library.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA274631
Entities
People
- Alan Sussman
- Gagan Agrawal
- Joel Saltz