Towards Seamless and High-Productive Parallel Programming Environment

Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Bldg. 50F, Room 1647

Speaker:
Yutaka Ishikawa
Department of Computer Science/Information Technology Center
University of Tokyo, Japan

Abstract:
University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and Kyoto University
conducts the seamless and highly-productive parallel programming
environment for high-performance computing project to realize a new
portable efficient and convenient parallel programming environment
for various machines, such as, small-scale to large-scale PC
clusters and the next generation peta-scale supercomputer. The
projects focus on the development of a new parallel programming
language, numerical libraries, and runtime system. This is a four
year research and development project started at 2008 and funded by
the Japanese government. In this talk, after presenting an overview
of the project, a portable single runtime environment, that has been
developed at University of Tokyo, is given. The portable single
runtime environment consists of a portable user-level file system
and an implementation independent MPI runtime system. Using the
runtime environment, the binary code developed in the PC cluster may
run in the supercomputer center though the runtime environment is
different.

Host of Seminar: Jonathan Carter