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ABCLibScript: A Computer Language for Automatic Performance Tuning

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ABCLibScript was developed to enable the low-cost development of software with auto-tuning facility for numerical computational processing. In this chapter, we introduce the basic concept, software framework, programming examples, and future directions of ABCLibScript. Several potential applications of ABCLibScript in advanced computing environments are also presented.

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    The facility for the measurement of execution time is referred to as the monitor facility. The current implementation of the ABCLibScript code generator uses the Message Passing Interface (MPI) timer (MPI_WTIME). If the user can provide a high-accuracy timer, such as using a hardware counter, the user can use the MPI by defining a user-specified timer function call via the ABCLibScript API.

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Acknowledgments

This study is supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Development of Auto-tuning Specification Language Towards Manycore and Massively Parallel Processing Era,” No. 21300007, and CREST, JST (Technology Innovation and Integration for Information Systems with Ultra Low Power) “ULP-HPC: Ultra Low-Power, High-Performance Computing via Modeling and Optimization of Next Generation HPC Technologies.”

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  1. Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8658, Japan

    Takahiro Katagiri

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  1. Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Higashi-Koigakubo 1-280, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, 185-8601, Japan

    Ken Naono

  2. Cray, Inc., Jackson St. 380, St Paul, 55101, Minnesota, USA

    Keita Teranishi

  3. Dept. Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Smith Hall 101, Newark, 19716, Delaware, USA

    John Cavazos

  4. Dept. Computer Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Reiji Suda

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Katagiri, T. (2011). ABCLibScript: A Computer Language for Automatic Performance Tuning. In: Naono, K., Teranishi, K., Cavazos, J., Suda, R. (eds) Software Automatic Tuning. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6935-4_17

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