CCRI: Medium: Cilk Infrastructure for Next-Generation Parallel-Programming Research

CCRI：Medium：用于下一代并行编程研究的 Cilk 基础设施

• 批准号: 1925609
• 负责人: Charles Leiserson
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925609&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Medium; Cilk; Infrastructure; Next

This project is developing a new open-source software platform and ecosystem, called OpenCilk, which is based on the award-winning Cilk parallel-computing technology. As Moore's Law comes to an end, application performance will cease to improve - denying science, the national defense, and society the fruits of increasing performance - unless software can be engineered to run fast, especially through the use of parallel computing: the running of applications on multiple processors. OpenCilk provides an easy-to-modify software platform to enable parallel-programming researchers to explore new ways to compute on modern parallel hardware. Since parallel-programming research provides the technology that allows domain experts to program computationally intensive applications - including emerging national priorities such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational engineering and science - this project fosters next-generation research in both parallel computing and computationally intensive application domains. This project also supports Cilk Hub, a community-driven organization charged with maintaining and enhancing OpenCilk, as well as developing educational materials for parallel computing.OpenCilk is a complete, robust, open-source, and easily accessible task-parallel programming system. It provides a technology-transfer conduit to enable research contributions created by the parallel-computing research community to advance parallel programming as practiced by application developers. Over time, this project aims to consolidate proven parallel-computing research results from the areas of languages, compilers, runtime systems, productivity tools, libraries, and application benchmarks, and then integrate them into OpenCilk. The Cilk Hub organization develops and releases OpenCilk software, upstreams parallel-computing technology to mainstream codebases, and provides teaching materials and ancillary documentation. It offers workshops and tutorials for researchers and developers, evaluates community satisfaction with the OpenCilk technology, and manages the integration of community-proposed enhancements to OpenCilk.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目正在开发一个新的开源软件平台和生态系统，称为Op-Citek，该计划基于屡获殊荣的CILK并行计算技术。 随着摩尔定律结束，应用程序绩效将不再改善 - 否认科学，国防和社会的绩效成果不断提高 - 除非可以使用软件来快速运行，否则尤其是通过使用并行计算：在多个处理器上运行应用程序。 Opcilenk提供了一个易于修改的软件平台，以使并行编程的研究人员探索计算现代并行硬件的新方法。 由于并行编程研究提供了允许域专家对计算密集型应用程序进行编程的技术，包括新兴的国家优先事项，例如人工智能，机器学习和计算工程和科学，因此该项目促进了平行计算和计算密集型应用程序领域的下一代研究。 该项目还支持CILK HUB，这是一个由社区驱动的组织，负责维护和增强OPINEK，并为并行计算开发教育材料。Opencek是一个完整，健壮，开源且易于访问的任务并行编程系统。 它提供了技术转移的私密，以实现并行计算研究社区创建的研究贡献，以推动应用程序开发人员实践的并行编程。 随着时间的流逝，该项目旨在巩固从语言，编译器，运行时系统，生产力工具，库和应用程序基准的领域的经过验证的并行计算的研究结果，然后将它们集成到Op-Citek中。 CILK HUB组织开发并释放了Opencek软件，并在平行计算技术上进行主流代码库，并提供教材和辅助文档。 它为研究人员和开发人员提供了研讨会和教程，评估了社区对Op-Citemk技术的满意度，并管理了向Op-Citemk的社区所提供的增强功能的整合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的。