Ypnos: Declarative, Parallel Structured Grid Programming

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• Dominic Orchard, Computer Lab
• Friday 20 November 2009, 15:15-16:15
• GS15, Computer Laboratory.

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A fully automatic, compiler-driven approach to parallelisation can result in unpredictable time and space costs for compiled code. On the other hand, a fully manual approach to parallelisation can be long, tedious, prone to errors, hard to debug, and often architecture-specific. This talk presents a declarative domain-specific language, Ypnos, for expressing structured grid computations which encourages manual specification of causally sequential operations but then allows a simple, predictable, static analysis to generate optimised, parallel implementations. Ypnos is sufficiently restricted such that optimisation and parallelisation is guaranteed.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar series.

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