ASSIST Demo: A High Level, High Performance, Portable, Structured Parallel Programming Environment at Work

Aldinucci, Marco; Campa, Sonia; Ciullo, Pierpaolo; Coppola, Massimo; Danelutto, Marco; Pesciullesi, Paolo; Ravazzolo, Roberto; Torquati, Massimo; Vanneschi, Marco; Zoccolo, Corrado

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45209-6_176

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“…Last but not least, ASSIST code can be compiled into GRID.it components and used within any other GRID.it component program. The interested reader can refer to [42,4,3] or to the ASSIST home page, hosting the available documentation at http:www.di.unipi.it/Assist.html.…”

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High level Grid programming with ASSIST*

Aldinucci¹,

Coppola²,

Danelutto³

et al. 2006

CMST

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Abstract:The development of efficient Grid applications usually requires writing huge portions of code directly at the level of abstraction provided by the underlying Grid middleware. In this work we discuss an alternative approach, raising the level of abstraction used when programming Grid applications. Our approach requires programmers just to describe in a qualitative way the kind of parallelism they want to express. Then, compiler tools, loader tools and run time system take complete care of running the application on a Grid target architecture. This allows to move most of the cumbersome tasks related to Grid targeting and management from programmer responsibility to tools. This paper introduces the structured parallel programming environment ASSIST, whose design is aimed at raising the level of abstraction in Grid programming and discusses how it can support transparent Grid programming while implementing Grid adaptivity.

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High level Grid programming with ASSIST*

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Coppola²,

Danelutto³

et al. 2006

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KDDML‐G: a grid‐enabled knowledge discovery system

Romei

Sciolla

Turini

et al. 2007

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYKDDML-G is a middleware language and system for knowledge discovery on the grid. The challenge that motivated the development of a grid-enabled version of the 'standalone' KDDML (Knowledge Discovery in Databases Markup Language) environment was on one side to exploit the parallelism offered by the grid environment, and on the other side to overcome the problem of data immovability, a quite frequent restriction on real-world data collections that has principally a privacy-preserving purpose. The last question is addressed by moving the code and 'mining' the data 'on the place', that is by adapting the computation to the availability and localization of the data.

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ASSIST As a Research Framework for High-Performance Grid Programming Environments

Aldinucci

Coppola

Vanneschi

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Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools

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ASSIST (A Software development System based upon Integrated Skeleton Technology) is a programming environment oriented to the development of parallel and distributed high-performance applications according to a unified approach. The language and implementation features of ASSIST are a result of our long-term research in parallel programming models and tools. ASSIST is evolving towards programming environments for high-performance complex enabling platforms, especially Grids. In this paper, we show how ASSIST can act as a valid research vehicle to study, experiment and realize Grid-aware programming environments for high-performance applications. Special emphasis is put on the innovative methodologies, strategies and tools for dynamically adaptive applications, that represent the necessary step for the success of Grid platforms.First we discuss the conceptual framework for Grid-aware programming environments, based upon structured parallel programming and components technology, anticipating how ASSIST possesses the essential features required by such framework. Then we summarize the ASSIST programming model, showing its evolution, along the line of structured parallel programming, to solve critical problems of expressive power, flexibility, interoperability and efficiency; some examples, both of kernels and of complex applications, are used to point out the ASSIST features. The modular compiler model and the current implementation for heterogeneous platforms and Globus-based Grids are illustrated. We show the features that allow ASSIST programs to be used in CORBA infrastructures, that represents our basic starting point towards interoperability in Grid applications. Finally, the presentation of all the previous issues is used to derive an ASSIST-based model for supporting dynamically adaptive applications.--

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ASSIST Demo: A High Level, High Performance, Portable, Structured Parallel Programming Environment at Work

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

High level Grid programming with ASSIST*

High level Grid programming with ASSIST*

KDDML‐G: a grid‐enabled knowledge discovery system

ASSIST As a Research Framework for High-Performance Grid Programming Environments

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