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Given by Don Leskiw at Icase Workshop on HPF on August 95. Foils prepared 4 November 1995
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Set of Foils prepared by Don Leskiw describing Fall 1995 Status and Mission of PCRC
PCRC is the Parallel Compiler Runtime Consortium
Members of Consortium are Syracuse University, Cooperating Systems, Harvard University, Indiana University, Rice University, University of Maryland, University of Rochester, University of Texas Austin
Principal Investigators are Geoffrey Fox, Marina Chen, Thomas Cheatham, Dennis Gannon, Ken Kennedy, Joel Saltz, Wei Li, Jim Browne
Project Manager is Don Leskiw

see Overview of PCRC for electronic pointers

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1 PCRC Project Overview
2 New Ideas
3 Impact
4 Schedule
5 Research Issues and Innovations - 1
6 Research Issues and Innovations - 2
7 Team Members

This table of Contents Abstract

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Foil 1 PCRC Project Overview

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Foil 2 New Ideas

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Portable and scalable multi-platform runtime support
  • Address translations
  • Communication optimizations
Integrated multilanguage support
  • Common HPF and HPC++ libraries
  • Common compiler data movement interface specification
Interoperable Compilers
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Foil 3 Impact

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Software engineering of distributed systems
  • Framework for composing, executing and measuring software built from programs in multiple languages
Efficient address translations and data movements for distributed memory systems
Portable runtime support for multiprocessors
Testbeds for extending compilers, runtime software, and languages for experimentation and research
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Foil 4 Schedule

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Foil 5 Research Issues and Innovations - 1

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Portable and Scalable Multi-platform Runtime Support
  • Efficiently support address translations and data movements when mapping a shared address space onto a multiple processor architecture
  • Develop an integrated runtime support system to carry out address translation and communication optimizations; build this on top of a message passing interface
Integrated Multilanguage Support
  • Allow different programming languages to share data structures that are distributed across the memory hierarchy of a scalable parallel system
  • Develop common code and data descriptors, and routines that operate on them, for supporting data parallelism in HPLs
  • Design a common compiler data movement interface specification that will provide a set of communication standards for compiled code, ranging from very low primitives that exploit special hardware properties to very high level primitives directly coupled the the common array and data structure formats
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Foil 6 Research Issues and Innovations - 2

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Software Engineering
  • System level test and validation of the Common Runtime System requires development of a methodology and framework for composing, executing and measuring systems built from programs in multiple languages
  • Develop a methodology to allow ease of use, modification, specialization, and extension of the Common Runtime System: support new data structures, new language features, new runtime mechanisms and algorithms, and new message passing or distributed shared memory interfaces.
Interoperable Compilers
  • We will have seven compilers sharing the same runtime system and be available for use and experimentation in multilanguage systems
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Foil 7 Team Members

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Syracuse University
  • Geoffrey C. Fox, PI
Cooperating Systems
  • Marina Chen
Harvard University
  • Thomas Cheatham
Indiana University
  • Dennis Gannon
Rice University
  • Ken Kennedy
University of Maryland
  • Joel Saltz
University of Rochester
  • Wei Li
University of Texas, Austin
  • Jim Browne
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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