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Scientific Computing on Multicore Architectures
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Scientific Computing. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Computational Science.
2014 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Computer simulations are an indispensable tool for scientists to gain new insights about nature. Simulations of natural phenomena are usually large, and limited by the available computer resources. By using the computer resources more efficiently, larger and more detailed simulations can be performed, and more information can be extracted to help advance human knowledge.

The topic of this thesis is how to make best use of modern computers for scientific computations. The challenge here is the high level of parallelism that is required to fully utilize the multicore processors in these systems.

Starting from the basics, the primitives for synchronizing between threads are investigated. Hardware transactional memory is a new construct for this, which is evaluated for a new use of importance for scientific software: atomic updates of floating point values. The evaluation includes experiments on real hardware and comparisons against standard methods.

Higher level programming models for shared memory parallelism are then considered. The state of the art for efficient use of multicore systems is dynamically scheduled task-based systems, where tasks can depend on data. In such systems, the software is divided up into many small tasks that are scheduled asynchronously according to their data dependencies. This enables a high level of parallelism, and avoids global barriers.

A new system for managing task dependencies is developed in this thesis, based on data versioning. The system is implemented as a reusable software library, and shown to be as efficient or more efficient than other shared-memory task-based systems in experimental comparisons.

The developed runtime system is then extended to distributed memory machines, and used for implementing a parallel version of a software for global climate simulations. By running the optimized and parallelized version on eight servers, an equally sized problem can be solved over 100 times faster than in the original sequential version. The parallel version also allowed significantly larger problems to be solved, previously unreachable due to memory constraints.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014. , p. 47
Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 1139
Keywords [en]
multicore, scientific computing, shared memory parallelism, task-based programming, parallel programming model, task scheduling, data versioning
National Category
Software Engineering Computational Mathematics
Research subject
Scientific Computing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-221241ISBN: 978-91-554-8928-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-221241DiVA, id: diva2:708164
Public defence
2014-05-23, Room 2446, Polacksbacken, Lägerhyddsvägen 2, Uppsala, 10:15 (English)
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UPMARCeSSENCEAvailable from: 2014-04-29 Created: 2014-03-26 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Using hardware transactional memory for high-performance computing
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2011 (English)In: Proc. 25th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum, Piscataway, NJ: IEEE , 2011, p. 1660-1667Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2011
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158551 (URN)10.1109/IPDPS.2011.322 (DOI)978-1-61284-425-1 (ISBN)
Conference
IPDPS Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications
Projects
eSSENCEUPMARC
Available from: 2011-09-01 Created: 2011-09-10 Last updated: 2018-01-12Bibliographically approved
2. SuperGlue: A shared memory framework using data versioning for dependency-aware task-based parallelization
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2014 (English)Report (Other academic)
Series
Technical report / Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, ISSN 1404-3203 ; 2014-010
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-221155 (URN)
Projects
UPMARCeSSENCE
Available from: 2014-04-03 Created: 2014-03-25 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
3. Resource-aware task scheduling
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2015 (English)In: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, ISSN 1539-9087, E-ISSN 1558-3465, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 5:1-25, article id 5Article in journal (Refereed) Published
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-216287 (URN)10.1145/2638554 (DOI)000349302200005 ()
Projects
UPMARCeSSENCE
Available from: 2015-01-21 Created: 2014-01-20 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
4. A task parallel implementation of an RBF-generated finite difference method for the shallow water equations on the sphere
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A task parallel implementation of an RBF-generated finite difference method for the shallow water equations on the sphere
2014 (English)Report (Other academic)
Series
Technical report / Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, ISSN 1404-3203 ; 2014-011
National Category
Computer Sciences Computational Mathematics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-221156 (URN)
Projects
eSSENCEUPMARC
Available from: 2014-04-03 Created: 2014-03-25 Last updated: 2018-01-11Bibliographically approved
5. Programming models based on data versioning for dependency-aware task-based parallelisation
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2012 (English)In: Proc. 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, p. 275-280Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2012
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-187446 (URN)10.1109/ICCSE.2012.45 (DOI)000317475000038 ()978-1-4673-5165-2 (ISBN)
Conference
CSE 2012
Projects
eSSENCEUPMARC
Available from: 2013-01-24 Created: 2012-12-06 Last updated: 2018-01-16Bibliographically approved

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