@conference {,
	title = {Generalized Flow-Graph Programming Using Template Task-Graphs: Initial Implementation and Assessment},
	booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022-07},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Lyon, France},
	abstract = {We present and evaluate TTG, a novel programming model and its C++ implementation that by marrying the ideas of control and data flowgraph programming supports compact specification and efficient distributed execution of dynamic and irregular applications. Programming interfaces that support task-based execution often only support shared memory parallel environments; a few support distributed memory environments, either by discovering the entire DAG of tasks on all processes, or by introducing explicit communications. The first approach limits scalability, while the second increases the complexity of programming. We demonstrate how TTG can address these issues without sacrificing scalability or programmability by providing higher-level abstractions than conventionally provided by task-centric programming systems, without impeding the ability of these runtimes to manage task creation and execution as well as data and resource management efficiently. TTG supports distributed memory execution over 2 different task runtimes, PaRSEC and MADNESS. Performance of four paradigmatic applications (in graph analytics, dense and block-sparse linear algebra, and numerical integrodifferential calculus) with various degrees of irregularity implemented in TTG is illustrated on large distributed-memory platforms and compared to the state-of-the-art implementations.},
	doi = {10.1109/IPDPS53621.2022.00086},
	url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9820613},
	author = {Schuchart, Joseph and Nookala, Poornima and Javanmard, Mohammad Mahdi and Herault, Thomas and Valeev, Edward F. and George Bosilca and Harrison, Robert J.}
}
@conference {,
	title = {Pushing the Boundaries of Small Tasks: Scalable Low-Overhead Data-Flow Programming in TTG},
	booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022-09},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Heidelberg, Germany},
	abstract = {Shared memory parallel programming models strive to provide low-overhead execution environments. Task-based programming models, in particular, are well-suited to cope with the ubiquitous multi- and many-core systems since they allow applications to express all available concurrency to a scheduler, which is tasked with exploiting the available hardware resources. It is general consensus that atomic operations should be preferred over locks and mutexes to avoid inter-thread serialization and the resulting loss in efficiency. However, even atomic operations may serialize threads if not used judiciously. In this work, we will discuss several optimizations applied to TTG and the underlying PaRSEC runtime system aiming at removing contentious atomic operations to reduce the overhead of task management to a few hundred clock cycles. The result is an optimized data-flow programming system that seamlessly scales from a single node to distributed execution and which is able to compete with OpenMP in shared memory.},
	keywords = {Dataflow graph, Hardware, Instruction sets, Memory management, PaR-SEC, parallel programming, runtime, scalability, Task analysis, task-based programming, Template Task Graph, TTG},
	doi = {10.1109/CLUSTER51413.2022.00026},
	url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9912704/},
	author = {Schuchart, Joseph and Nookala, Poornima and Herault, Thomas and Valeev, Edward F. and George Bosilca}
}
