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SoftXMT Project Overview

The Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software (CASS) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) provides a high-level overview of the SoftXMT project, which is one of fifteen tasks the center supports to advance computational capability for solving large irregular problems via multithreading technologies.

Participating organizations include:

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering
• Cray Inc.
• Convey Inc.

Meeting info

Wednesdays, 9 am, Allen Center room 674, 90 minutes

• Meeting notes

Publications

• Jacob Nelson, Brandon Myers, A. H. Hunter, Preston Briggs, Luis Ceze, Carl Ebeling, Dan Grossman, Simon Kahan, Mark Oskin. Crunching Large Graphs with Commodity Processors. USENIX HotPar 11.

Documents

• Project Description
  • PNNL Task Flyer
• Threading Packages
  • QThreads
  • Cilk Plus
    • Early Cilk PPoPP paper
  • TBB
• Cray
  • Introduction to Cray XMT (MTA) Programming Model
  • Overall Cray XMT Documentation
  • Paper on original design: The Tera Computer System
• Convey
  • Convey HC-1 Whitepaper
• Sun
  • Preston's notes on Niagara: Niagara Notes
• Application Papers
  • Software and Algorithms for Graph Queries on Multithreaded Architectures
• Jace Mogill's Extended Memory Semantics on Hybrid FPGA-x86 Architectures
• Mandal, Fowler, and Porterfield's Modeling Memory Concurrency for Multi-Socket Multi-Core Systems
• Notes on CPS-style parallelism: Blue Sky