Toward a Standard Interface for User-Defined Scheduling in OpenMP

Autor:	Kale, Vivek, Iwainsky, Christian, Klemm, Michael, Korndorfer, Jonas H. Muller, Ciorba, Florina M.
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Computer Science - Distributed Parallel and Cluster Computing Computer Science - Computation and Language Computer Science - Performance Computer Science - Programming Languages
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Parallel loops are an important part of OpenMP programs. Efficient scheduling of parallel loops can improve performance of the programs. The current OpenMP specification only offers three options for loop scheduling, which are insufficient in certain instances. Given the large number of other possible scheduling strategies, it is infeasible to standardize each one. A more viable approach is to extend the OpenMP standard to allow for users to define loop scheduling strategies. The approach will enable standard-compliant application-specific scheduling. This work analyzes the principal components required by user-defined scheduling and proposes two competing interfaces as candidates for the OpenMP standard. We conceptually compare the two proposed interfaces with respect to the three host languages of OpenMP, i.e., C, C++, and Fortran. These interfaces serve the OpenMP community as a basis for discussion and prototype implementation for user-defined scheduling. Comment: 16 pages with references
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08911 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv