Accelerating code on multi-cores with FastFlow
Computer Science Department, University of Torino, Italy
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Parallel processing – Volume Part II, Euro-Par’11, 2011
@article{aldinucci2011accelerating,
title={Accelerating code on multi-cores with FastFlow},
author={Aldinucci, M. and Danelutto, M. and Kilpatrick, P. and Meneghin, M. and Torquati, M.},
journal={Proc. of 17th Intl. Euro-Par},
volume={11},
year={2011}
}
FastFlow is a programming framework specifically targeting cache-coherent shared-memory multi-cores. It is implemented as a stack of C++ template libraries built on top of lock-free (and memory fence free) synchronization mechanisms. Its philosophy is to combine programmability with performance. In this paper a new FastFlow programming methodology aimed at supporting parallelization of existing sequential code via offloading onto a dynamically created software accelerator is presented. The new methodology has been validated using a set of simple micro-benchmarks and some real applications.
October 15, 2011 by hgpu
