Evaluating High Level Parallel Programming Support for Irregular Applications in ICC++

摘要

Object-oriented techniques have been proffered as aids for managing complexity, enhancing reuse, and improving readability of parallel applications, and numer-our variants have been explored. These techniques appear especially promising for irregular applications, where modularity and encapsulation help manage complex data and parallelism structures. In this paper, we evaluate a high level concurrent object system's programmability for achieving high performance on irregular applications. Prior research exists for both implementing irregular parallel applications efficiently and concurrent object-oriented programming, but we know of no studies that address both together.