A parallel pattern for iterative stencil + reduce

Autor: Aldinucci, M., Danelutto, M., Drocco, M., Kilpatrick, P., Misale, C., Pezzi, G. Peretti, Torquati, M.
Rok vydání: 2016
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s11227-016-1871-z
Popis: We advocate the Loop-of-stencil-reduce pattern as a means of simplifying the implementation of data-parallel programs on heterogeneous multi-core platforms. Loop-of-stencil-reduce is general enough to subsume map, reduce, map-reduce, stencil, stencil-reduce, and, crucially, their usage in a loop in both data-parallel and streaming applications, or a combination of both. The pattern makes it possible to deploy a single stencil computation kernel on different GPUs. We discuss the implementation of Loop-of-stencil-reduce in FastFlow, a framework for the implementation of applications based on the parallel patterns. Experiments are presented to illustrate the use of Loop-of-stencil-reduce in developing data-parallel kernels running on heterogeneous systems.
Databáze: arXiv