Montse Farreras – BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Calin Cascaval - IBM
TJ Watson Research Center. Gheorghe Almasi - IBM TJ Watson Research ...
Productive Parallel Programming in PGAS Montse Farreras – BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Center Calin Cascaval
- IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Gheorghe Almasi - IBM TJ Watson Research Center Ettore Tiotto
- IBM Toronto Laboratory
Kit Barton
- IBM Toronto Laboratory
Outline
1. Overview of the PGAS programming model (1h) Hands-on 1: Getting Started (1h) 2. Scalability and performance considerations 3. Optimizations
(1h)
4. Conclusions Hands-on 2: Getting Performance (1h)
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1. Overview of the PGAS programming model Some slides adapted with permission from Kathy Yelick
Partitioned Global Address Space
Explicitly parallel, shared-memory like programming model Global addressable space
Allows programmers to declare and “directly” access data distributed across the machine Partitioned address space
Memory is logically partitioned between local and remote (a two-level hierarchy) Forces the programmer to pay attention to data locality, by exposing the inherent NUMA-ness of current architectures Single Processor Multiple Data (SPMD) execution model
All threads of control execute the same program Number of threads fixed at startup Newer languages such as X10 escape this model, allowing fine-grain threading Different language implementations:
UPC (C-based), CoArray Fortran (Fortran-based), Titanium and X10 (Java-based)
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Partitioned Global Address Space
Process/Thread
Address Space
Message passing
Shared Memory
PGAS
MPI
OpenMP
UPC, CAF, X10
Computation is performed in multiple places. A place contains data that can be operated on remotely. Data lives in the place it was created, for its lifetime.
A datum in one place may point to a datum in another place. Data-structures (e.g. arrays) may be distributed across many places.
A place expresses locality. Montse Farreras
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UPC Overview and Design Philosophy
Unified Parallel C (UPC) is:
An explicit parallel extension of ANSI C A partitioned global address space language Similar to the C language philosophy
Programmers are clever and careful, and may need to get close to hardware to get performance, but can get in trouble
Concise and efficient syntax Common and familiar syntax and semantics for parallel C with simple extensions to ANSI C Based on ideas in Split-C, AC, and PCP
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UPC Execution Model
A number of threads working independently in a SPMD fashion
Number of threads available as program variable THREADS MYTHREAD specifies thread index (0..THREADS-1) upc_barrier is a global synchronization: all wait There is a form of parallel loop that we will see later There are two compilation modes
Static Threads mode: THREADS is specified at compile time by the user (compiler option) The program may use THREADS as a compile-time constant The compiler generates more efficient code
Dynamic threads mode: Compiled code may be run with varying numbers of threads THREADS is specified at runtime time by the user (via env. variable) Montse Farreras
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Hello World in UPC
Any legal C program is also a legal UPC program If you compile and run it as UPC with N threads, it will run N copies of the program (Single Program executed by all threads). #include #include int main() { printf("Thread %d of %d: Hello UPC world\n", MYTHREAD, THREADS); return 0; } hello > xlupc helloWorld.upc hello > env UPC_NTHREADS=4 ./a.out Thread 1 of 4: Hello UPC world Thread 0 of 4: Hello UPC world Thread 3 of 4: Hello UPC world Thread 2 of 4: Hello UPC world Montse Farreras
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Private vs. Shared Variables in UPC
Normal C variables and objects are allocated in the private memory space for each thread. Shared variables are allocated only once, with thread 0 shared int ours; int mine;
Shared variables may not be declared automatic, i.e., may not occur in a function definition, except as static. Why?
Global address space
Thread0 Thread1
Threadn
Shared
ours: mine:
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Private PRACE Winter School 2009
Shared Arrays
Shared arrays are spread over the threads, distributed in a cyclic fashion shared int x[THREADS]; /* 1 element per thread */ shared int y[3][THREADS]; /* 3 elements per thread */ shared int z[3][3]; /* 2 or 3 elements per thread */ Assuming THREADS = 4:
Think of a linearized C array, then map roundrobin on THREADS
x
y Thread 0 Thread 1
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Thread 3 PRACE Winter School 2009
Shared Arrays
int i,j,l; shared int x[THREADS]; shared int y[3][THREADS]; shared int z[3][3]; Assuming THREADS = 4: Thread0 Thread1 Thread2 Thread3 x
x0
x1
x2
x3
y
y00 y10 y20
y01 y11 y21
y02 y12 y22
y03 y13 y23
z
z00 z11 y32
z01 z12
z02 z30
z10 z31
i,j,l
i,j,l
i,j,l
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Example: Vector Addition Questions about parallel vector additions: How to layout data (here it is cyclic) Which processor does what (here it is “owner computes”) /* vadd.c */ #include #define N 100*THREADS
cyclic layout
shared int v1[N], v2[N], sum[N]; void main() { int i; for(i=0; i
