Much progress has been made on integrating parallel programming into the core Computer Science curriculum of top-tier universities in the United States. For example, "COMP 322: Introduction to parallel Programmin...
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(纸本)9781728101903
Much progress has been made on integrating parallel programming into the core Computer Science curriculum of top-tier universities in the United States. For example, "COMP 322: Introduction to parallel programming" at Rice University is a required course for all undergraduate students pursuing a bachelors degree. It teaches a wide range of parallel programming paradigms, from task-parallel to SPMD to actor-based programming. However, courses like COMP 322 do little to support members of the Computer Science community that need to develop these skills but who are not currently enrolled in a four-year program with parallel programming in the curriculum. This group includes (1) working professionals, (2) students at USA universities without parallel programming courses, or (3) students in countries other than the USA without access to a parallel programming course. To serve these groups, Rice University launched the "parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed programming in Java" Coursera specialization on July 31, 2017. In 2017, the authors of that specialization also wrote an experiences paper about launching the specialization. In this paper, the sequel to our previous publication, we look back at the first year of the Coursera specialization. In particular, we ask the following questions: (1) how did our assumptions about the student body for this course hold up?, (2) how has the course changed since launch?, and (3) what can we learn about how students are progressing through the specialization from Coursera's built-in analytics?
Writing correct and efficient parallel programs is hard. A lack of overview leads to errors in control- and dataflow, e.g., race conditions, which are hard to find due to their nondeterministic nature. In this paper, ...
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(纸本)9781538649756
Writing correct and efficient parallel programs is hard. A lack of overview leads to errors in control- and dataflow, e.g., race conditions, which are hard to find due to their nondeterministic nature. In this paper, we present a graphical programming model for parallel stream processing applications, which improves the overview by visualizing high level dataflow together with explicit and concise annotations for concurrency-related dependency information. The key idea of our approach is twofold: First, we present a powerful graphical task editor together with annotations that enable the designer to define stream properties, task dependencies, and routing information. These annotations facilitate fine-granular and correct parallelization. Second, we propose seamless integration with the safe parallel programming language Rust by providing automated code structure generation from the graphical representation, design patterns for common parallel programming constructs like filters, and a scheduling and runtime environment. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach with a network-based processing system as it is typically found in advanced firewalls.
Accelerator clusters are an ongoing trend in high performance computing, continuously gaining traction and forming a ubiquitous hardware resource for domain scientists to run large-scale simulations on. However, there...
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The present work shows the parallelization of the algorithmic design technique Divide & Conquer in two different ways: As a parallel Design Pattern (PDP) through Active Objects and as Composition High-Level Parall...
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With the increase of the search for computational models where the expression of parallelism occurs naturally, some paradigms arise as options for the current generation of computers. In this context, dynamic dataflow...
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Technology is evolving continuously at an exponential rate in terms of its performance. Traditional processors just have one core, however their computational capacity has been outgrown. Increasing the single core’s ...
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Technology is evolving continuously at an exponential rate in terms of its performance. Traditional processors just have one core, however their computational capacity has been outgrown. Increasing the single core’s clock frequency is one technique to boost the system’s performance. A multitude of problems, including excessive power dissipation and CPU overheating, will arise when the frequency is increased. This issue was resolved by adding more cores to the same CPU to increase processing speed. Multicore processors are the term used to describe this architectural breakthrough. Each core functions independently. Due to these modifications, programmers are forced to code in parallel. We must create code that leverages several cores in parallel. The parallel programming paradigm was developed to create such programmes. The transition from sequential to parallel execution in the software development industry has been greatly influenced by parallel processing. We have OpneMP and MPI constructs, which may be utilised with current languages to parallelize the code.
Directive-driven programming models, such as OpenMP, are one solution for exploring the potential parallelism when targeting multicore architectures. Although these approaches significantly help developers, code paral...
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Directive-driven programming models, such as OpenMP, are one solution for exploring the potential parallelism when targeting multicore architectures. Although these approaches significantly help developers, code parallelization is still a non-trivial and time-consuming process, requiring parallel programming skills. Thus, many efforts have been made toward automatic parallelization of the existing sequential code. This article presents AutoPar-Clava, an OpenMP-based automatic parallelization compiler which: (1) statically detects parallelizable loops in C applications;(2) classifies variables used inside the target loop based on their access pattern;(3) supportsreductionclauses on scalar and array variables whenever it is applicable;and (4) generates a C OpenMP parallel code from the input sequential version. The effectiveness of AutoPar-Clava is evaluated by using the NAS and Polyhedral Benchmark suites and targeting a x86-based computing platform. The achieved results are very promising and compare favorably with closely related auto-parallelization compilers, such as Intel C/C++ Compiler (icc), ROSE, TRACO and CETUS.
Alternative programming models and runtimes are increasing in popularity and maturity. This allows porting and comparing, on competitive grounds, emerging parallel approaches against the traditional MPI+X paradigm. In...
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High-performance computing (HPC) is often perceived as a matter of making large-scale systems (e.g., clusters) run as fast as possible, regardless the required programming effort. However, the idea of "bringing H...
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The analysis of efficiency of application of four technologies of parallel programming for parallelization of algorithm of block encryption Advanced Encryption System is carried out in the work. The obtained results s...
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