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Performance and Productivity of New Programming Languages

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Will HPC programmers (have to) adapt to new programming languages and parallelization concepts? Many different languages are currently discussed as complements or successors to the traditional HPC programming paradigm (Fortran/C+MPI). These include both languages designed specifically for the HPC community (e.g. the partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages UPC, CAF, X10 or Chapel) and languages that allow the use of hardware accelerators (e.g. Cn for ClearSpeed accelerator boards, CellSs for IBM CELL and GPGPU languages like CUDA, OpenCL, CAPS hmpp and RapidMind).

During the project “Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – Preparatory Phase” (PRACE-PP), developers across Europe have ported three benchmarks to more than 12 different programming languages and assessed both performance and productivity. Their results will help scientific groups to choose the optimal combination of language and hardware to efficiently tackle their scientific problems. This paper describes the framework used for this assessment and the results gathered during the study together with guidelines for interpretation.

This work was financially supported by the PRACE project funded in part by the EUs 7th Framework Programme (FP/2007/2013) under grant agreement no. RI-211528 and RI-261557. We specially thank the following individuals for their time and effort to port the Euroben kernels and for reporting their experiences: Guillaume Colin de Verdière, CEA, France (CAPS hmpp); Maciej Cytowski , PSNC, Poland (CellSs); Jose Gracia, HLRS, Germany (Chapel); Hans Hacker, LRZ, Gernany (CUDA, MKL); Olli-Pekka Lehto, CSC, Finland (OpenCL, CUDA+MPI); Walter Lioen, SARA, Netherlands (X10); James Perry, EPCC, United Kingdom (VHDL, HCE); Sami Saarinen, CSC, Finland (UPC, CAF); Ramnath Sai Sagar, BSC, Spain (CellSs); Filippo Spiga, CINECA, Italy (OpenMP+MPI); Aad van der Steen, NCF, Netherlands (C, Fortran, MPI) and Volker Weinberg, LRZ, Germany (RapidMind).

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  1. Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching, Germany

    Iris Christadler

  2. CINECA Supercomputing Centre, Bologna, Italy

    Giovanni Erbacci

  3. EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Alan D. Simpson

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  1. High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Universität Stuttgart, Nobelstraße 19, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Rainer Keller

  2. Institute of Computer Science and Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Haid-und-Neu-Straße 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    David Kramer

  3. Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, SRG New Frontiers in High Performance Computing and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 4, Fritz-Erler-Straße 23, 76133, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Christadler, I., Erbacci, G., Simpson, A.D. (2012). Performance and Productivity of New Programming Languages. In: Keller, R., Kramer, D., Weiss, JP. (eds) Facing the Multicore - Challenge II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30397-5_3

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