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Insulating the scientific programmer from perilous parallel architecture

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POOSC '10: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/2039312.2039315

Published: 17 October 2010 Publication History

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The resource requirements of modern-day scientific applications is making hardware acceleration a requisite design consideration. But typically these applications are created and implemented by scientists trained in other fields, not the intricacies of parallel processing. Consequently, there is a definite need for abstractions.

In this paper, we discuss why the typically object-oriented abstractions that are commonly made available in such settings introduce accidental sequentiality and render the hardware acceleration ineffective. We hence propose a few research directions that we intend to pursue in order to generate new abstractions that better insulate the programmer from implementation details that do not relate to application logic.

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Insulating the scientific programmer from perilous parallel architecture
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Abstraction, modeling and modularity

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POOSC '10: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Parallel/High-Performance Object-Oriented Scientific Computing

October 2010

43 pages

ISBN:9781450305464

DOI:10.1145/2039312

Conference Chair:
Kei Davis
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

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Published: 17 October 2010

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SPLASH '10: Systems Programming Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity

October 17 - 21, 2010

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