Towards Programmable Address Spaces

Andrew Gozillon; Paul Keir

doi:10.15439/2017F217

Towards Programmable Address Spaces

Andrew Gozillon, Paul Keir

School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

High-performance computing increasingly makes use of heterogeneous many-core parallelism. Individual processor cores within such systems are radically simpler than their predecessors; and tasks previously the responsibility of hardware, are delegated to software. Rather than use a cache, fast on-chip memory, is exposed through a handful of address space annotations; associating pointers with discrete sections of memory, within trivially distinct programming languages. Our work aims to improve the programmability of address spaces by exposing new functionality within the LLVM compiler, and then the existing template metaprogramming system of C++. This is achieved firstly via a new LLVM attribute, ext\_address\_space which facilitates integration with the non-type template parameters of C++. We also present a type traits API which encapsulates the address space annotations, to allow execution on both conventional and extended C++ compilers; and illustrate its applicability to OpenCL 2.x.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	697-700
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-83-946253-7-5, 978-83-946253-8-2
ISBN (Print)	978-83-946253-9-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15439/2017F217
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2017
Event	Workshop on Advances In Programming Languages 2017 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 3 Sept 2017 → 6 Sept 2017 https://fedcsis.org/2017/wapl

Publication series

Name	Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems
Publisher	IEEE
Volume	11
ISSN (Print)	2300-5963

Workshop

Workshop	Workshop on Advances In Programming Languages 2017
Abbreviated title	WAPL 2017
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	3/09/17 → 6/09/17
Internet address	https://fedcsis.org/2017/wapl

Keywords

address space
__global
__local
__shared
OpenCL
Clang
LLVM
Compiler
C++
C++ Templates
Metaprogramming

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