We have developed a high-level language, called Kanor, for declaratively specifying communication in parallel programs. Designed as an extension of C++, it serves to coordinate partitioned address space programs written in the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) style. Kanor's declarative semantics enable the programmers to write correct and maintainable parallel applications. The communication abstraction has been carefully designed to be amenable to compiler optimizations.While partitioned address space programming has several advantages, it needs special compiler optimizations to effectively leverage the shared memory hardware when running on multicore machines. In this paper, we introduce such sharedmemory optimizations in the context of Kanor. One major way we achieve these optimizations is by selectively moving some of the variables into a globally shared address space-a process that we term partial globalization. We identify scenarios in which such a transformation is beneficial, and present an algorithm to identify and correctly transform Kanor communication steps into zero-copy communication using hardware shared memory, by introducing minimal synchronization. We then present a runtime strategy that complements the compiler algorithm to eliminate most of the runtime synchronization overheads by using a copyon-conflict technique. Finally, we show that our solution often performs much better than shared-memory optimized MPI, and never performs significantly worse than MPI even in the presence of dependencies introduced due to buffer sharing.The techniques in this paper demonstrate that it is possible to program in a partitioned address space style, without sacrificing the performance advantages of hardware shared memory. To the best of our knowledge no other automatic compiler techniques have been developed so far that achieve zero-copy communication from a partitioned address space program. We expect out results to be applicable beyond Kanor, to other partitioned address space programming environments, such as MPI.
It has become common for MPI-based applications to run on shared-memory machines. However, MPI semantics do not allow leveraging shared memory fully for communication between processes from within the MPI library. This paper presents an approach that combines compiler transformations with a specialized runtime system to achieve zero-copy communication whenever possible by proving certain properties statically and globalizing data selectively by altering the allocation and deallocation of communication buffers.The runtime system provides dynamic optimization, when such proofs are not possible statically, by copying data only when there are write-write or read-write conflicts. We implemented a prototype compiler, using ROSE, and evaluated it on several benchmarks. Our system produces code that performs better than MPI in most cases and no worse than MPI, tuned for shared memory, in all cases.
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