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Scalable Session Programming for Heterogeneous High-Performance Systems

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Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2013)

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This paper introduces a programming framework based on the theory of session types for safe and scalable parallel designs. Session-based languages can offer a clear and tractable framework to describe communications between parallel components and guarantee communication-safety and deadlock-freedom by compile-time type checking and parallel MPI code generation. Many representative communication topologies such as ring or scatter-gather can be programmed and verified in session-based programming languages. We use a case study involving N-body simulation, dense and sparse matrix multiplication to illustrate the session-based programming style. Finally, we outline a proposal to integrate session programming with heterogeneous systems for efficient and communication-safe parallel applications by a combination of code generation and type checking.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from EPSRC EP/F003757/01, EP/G015635/01 and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement number 257906, 287804 and 318521. The support by the HiPEAC NoE, the Maxeler University Program, and Xilinx is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Nicholas Ng, Nobuko Yoshida & Wayne Luk

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Ng, N., Yoshida, N., Luk, W. (2014). Scalable Session Programming for Heterogeneous High-Performance Systems. In: Counsell, S., Núñez, M. (eds) Software Engineering and Formal Methods. SEFM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05032-4_7

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