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T. Hoefler, T. Schneider:
	Communication-Centric Optimizations by Dynamically Detecting Collective Operations (. Vol , Nr. , In Proceedings of the 17th ACM symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming, presented in , pages , , ISSN: , ISBN: , Feb. 2012, (poster paper) ) Abstract The steady increase of parallelism in high-performance computing platforms implies that communication will be most important in large-scale applications. In this work, we tackle the problem of transparent optimization of large-scale communication patterns using online compilation techniques. We utilize the Group Operation Assembly Language (GOAL), an abstract parallel dataflow definition language, to specify our transformations in a device-independent manner. We develop fast schemes that analyze data-flow and synchronization semantics in GOAL and detect if parts of the (or the whole) communication pattern express a known collective communication operation. The detection of collective operations allows us to replace the detected patterns with highly optimized algorithms or low-level hardware calls and thus improve performance significantly. Benchmark results suggest that our technique can lead to a performance improvement of orders of magnitude compared with various optimized algorithms written in Co-Array Fortran. Detecting collective operations also improves the programmability of parallel languages in that the user does not have to understand the detailed semantics of high-level communication operations in order to generate efficient and scalable code. ACM Stats Documents download article: download attachment: download slides:
	BibTeX
@inproceedings{hoefler-colldetect-poster,   author={Torsten Hoefler and Timo Schneider},   title={{Communication-Centric Optimizations by Dynamically Detecting Collective Operations}},   journal={},   institution={},   year={2012},   month={02},   pages={},   volume={},   number={},   booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th ACM symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming},   location={},   publisher={},   issn={},   isbn={},   note={(poster paper)}, }