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HPC Refactoring with Hierarchical Abstractions to Help Software Evolution

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This article briefly introduces the concept of our new research project, JST CREST “An Evolutionary Approach to Construction of a Software Development Environment for Massively-Parallel Computing Systems.” Since high-performance computing system architectures are going to change drastically, existing application programs will need to evolve for adapting to the new-generation systems. Motivated by this, our project will explore an effective methodology to support the programming for software evolution of valuable existing applications, and also develop a programming framework to bridge the gap between system generations and thereby to encourage migration of existing applications to the new systems. The programming framework will provide abstractions of complicated system configurations at multiple levels, and refactoring tools to help evolving applications to use the abstractions.

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  • Abstraction Layer
  • Collective Communication
  • Software Development Environment
  • Heterogeneous Computing System
  • Numerical Library

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Prof. Michael Resch of HLRS, Prof. Wenmei W. Hwu of UIUC, and Prof. Chisachi Kato of the University of Tokyo for their valuable comments on this project. The authors would also like to thank Prof. Hiroaki Kobayashi of Tohoku University for constructive discussions.

This work is supported by JST CREST “An Evolutionary Approach to Construction of a Software Development Environment for Massively-Parallel Computing Systems.”

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University/JST CREST, 6-6-01 Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Hiroyuki Takizawa

  2. Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University/JST CREST, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Ryusuke Egawa

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba/JST CREST, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Daisuke Takahashi

  4. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo/JST CREST, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Reiji Suda

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  1. Stuttgart (HLRS), University of Stuttgart, High Performance Computing Center, Nobelstrasse 19, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

    Michael M. Resch

  2. Center Stuttgart (HLRS), University of Stuttgart, High Performance Computing, Nobelstraße 19, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

    Xin Wang

  3. Europe GmbH, NEC High Performance Computing, Prinzenallee 11, Düsseldorf, 40459, Germany

    Wolfgang Bez

  4. Europe GmbH, NEC High Performance Computing, Hessbrühlstr. 21b, Stuttgart, 70565, Germany

    Erich Focht

  5. Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University, Aramaki-Aza-Aoba 4F, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Hiroaki Kobayashi

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Takizawa, H., Egawa, R., Takahashi, D., Suda, R. (2013). HPC Refactoring with Hierarchical Abstractions to Help Software Evolution. In: Resch, M., Wang, X., Bez, W., Focht, E., Kobayashi, H. (eds) Sustained Simulation Performance 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32454-3_3

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