Towards an architecture for component‐oriented parallel programming

Abstract

SUMMARYThe # component model was proposed to meet the growing demands of new complex applications of science and engineering that require productive and efficient use of high-performance computing architectures. This paper presents the principles, intuition, and theories underlying the # component model, and the design of an architecture for programming frameworks that comply to the # component model.

On the design of abstract binding connectors for high performance computing component models

“…k ← getKindCombinatorFor(config) 11 end-if Figure 14. Deployment Procedure tain execution platform and data structure.…”

“…A natural step was to investigate how to allow computations to be specified in other languages, possibly non-functional ones, in alternative to Haskell, not popular in HPC community, giving birth to the # component model. As a consequence of such effort, a framework architecture for instantiating # programming systems was proposed [11], originating the #-framework HPE (Hash Programming Environment) as a plugin of the Eclipse Platform. A # framework can be extended with component kinds for defining complete programming systems.…”

“…If a configuration is available, the system attempts to deploy its inner abstract components (lines 07-09). If they are successfully deployed, the system asks for the appropriate combinator to build the #-component, which is specific to the configuration and its component kind (lines 11,12). If the deployer cannot provide a configuration, the system will try Looking at the example, if a configuration claims for an inhabitant of BINDINGOP[RMI, ARRAYOFDOUBLE], then the system returns, at launch time, the #-component binding 2 , because { * RMI, * ARRAYOFDOUBLE; binding 2 } is deployed in the environment.…”

“…A notion of abstract component is proposed, that will be supported by HPE, a programming system based on #-components that has been developed by the authors [11]. It borrows advanced concepts from type system theory to provide a higher-level of abstraction from the underlying computation platforms.…”

The design of a CCA framework with distribution, parallelism, and recursive composition

“…Such components are called #-components; • Recursive composition of #-components by overlapping; • Support for one or more component kinds, grouping components that present common components, connection, and deployment models [11], as well as their life-cycle. HPE is our reference # programming system, whose free source code is hosted at http://hash-programmingenvironment.googlecode.com [12].…”