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A Low Level Component Model Enabling Performance Portability of HPC Applications

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Scientific applications are increasingly getting complex, e.g. to improve their accuracy by taking into account more phenomena. Meanwhile, computing infrastructures are continuing their fast evolution. Thus, software engineering is becoming a major issue to achieve easiness of development, portability, maintenance, while achieving high performance. Software component model is a promising approach, which enables to manipulate the software architecture of an application. However, existing models do not provide enough support for performance portability. This paper proposes a low level component model (L2 C) that supports directly native connectors for typical scenarios of high performance computing, such as MPI, shared memory and method invocation. We walk through a typical example of stencil compu tation, i.e. 2-D Jacobi computation with domain decomposition. The experimental results show that L2 C can achieve the same p erformance as native implementations, while gaining benefits such as performance portability on the basis of the software com ponent model.
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hal-00749451 , version 1 (07-11-2012)

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Julien Bigot, Zhengxiong Hou, Christian Pérez, Vincent Pichon. A Low Level Component Model Enabling Performance Portability of HPC Applications. 5th International Workshop on Multi-Core Computing Systems, Nov 2012, Salt Lake City, United States. ⟨10.1109/SC.Companion.2012.96⟩. ⟨hal-00749451⟩
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