Massimiliano Meneghin
Accelerating sequential programs using FastFlow and self-offloading.
Fri, 02/26/2010 - 16:01 — SomNambulAuthors: Marco Aldinucci, Massimo Torquati, Massimiliano Meneghin, Marco Danelutto, Peter Kilpatrick
Subjects: and Cluster Computing, Distributed, Parallel
AbstractFastFlow is a programming environment specifically targeting cache-coherent
shared-memory multi-cores. FastFlow is implemented as a stack of C++ template
libraries built on top of lock-free (fence-free) synchronization mechanisms. In
this paper we present a further evolution of FastFlow enabling programmers to
offload part of their workload on a dynamically created software accelerator
running on unused CPUs. The offloaded function can be easily derived from
pre-existing sequential code.FastFlow: Efficient Parallel Streaming Applications on Multi-core.
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 12:16 — SomNambulAuthors: Marco Aldinucci, Massimo Torquati, Massimiliano Meneghin
Subjects: and Cluster Computing, Distributed, Parallel
AbstractShared memory multiprocessors come back to popularity thanks to rapid
spreading of commodity multi-core architectures. As ever, shared memory
programs are fairly easy to write and quite hard to optimise; providing
multi-core programmers with optimising tools and programming frameworks is a
nowadays challenge. Few efforts have been done to support effective streaming
applications on these architectures. In this paper we introduce FastFlow, a
low-level programming framework based on lock-free queues explicitly designed
to support high-level languages for streaming applications.
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