Nested parallelism for multi-core HPC systems using Java

Shafi, A., Carpenter, B. and Baker, M. (2009) Nested parallelism for multi-core HPC systems using Java. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 69 (6). pp. 532-545. ISSN 0743-7315 doi: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2009.02.006

Abstract/Summary

Since its introduction in 1993, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become a de facto standard for writing High Performance Computing (HPC) applications on clusters and Massively Parallel Processors (MPPs). The recent emergence of multi-core processor systems presents a new challenge for established parallel programming paradigms, including those based on MPI. This paper presents a new Java messaging system called MPJ Express. Using this system, we exploit multiple levels of parallelism - messaging and threading - to improve application performance on multi-core processors. We refer to our approach as nested parallelism. This MPI-like Java library can support nested parallelism by using Java or Java OpenMP (JOMP) threads within an MPJ Express process. Practicality of this approach is assessed by porting to Java a massively parallel structure formation code from Cosmology called Gadget-2. We introduce nested parallelism in the Java version of the simulation code and report good speed-ups. To the best of our knowledge it is the first time this kind of hybrid parallelism is demonstrated in a high performance Java application. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/15368
Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science
Uncontrolled Keywords	MPJ express, Java MPI, Multi-core messaging, MPJ, SIMULATION, INTERFACE, DESIGN
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