[ogb-discuss] Coarse Data Flow Parallelism Project Proposal

[Stephen Lau]

Hi Brad,
    If the HPC Community has already agreed to sponsor this - then no 
further action from the OGB is needed.  :-) 
Eric: Could you help set the project up with its space & resources?

cheers,
steve

Brad Lewis wrote:
> This is a proposal for Coarse Data Flow Parallelism Project.  This
> project is sponsored by the HPC Developer Community.
>
>
> Short Name
>   Coarse Data Flow Parallelism
>
> Sponsoring Communities
>   HPC Developer
>
> Initial participants
>   Theresa Do
>   Dave Hagerty
>   Paul Hinker
>   Tim Jacobson
>   Shandong Lao
>   Brad Lewis
>   Jeremy Week
>
> Description:
>
> We propose a project to explore Coarse Data Flow parallelism.  With the
> trend to CMT processors, shared memory parallelism is growing in importance.
> Data flow parallelism offers the theoretical maximum parallelism.  Using
> a coarse approach provides the benefit of increased parallelism on commodity
> hardware.  To start this project, a package of software named CORD (COarse
> Region Data flow) will be made available.  This package targets linear 
> algebra
> and has been used to develop highly scalable software for sun performance
> library on SMPs for many years.  The goal of the project will be to support
> the development of highly scalable data flow parallel programs. This will be
> done by enhancements to CORD by increasing functionality and the breadth of
> supported problem domains, through tools to support the development of data
> flow programs, and by exploring new technology.
>
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