UCLA CS 239 Parallel Programming Languages Winter 2009

Reading List

Languages

• X10: homepage
• X10: language report
• X10: Philippe Charles, Christian Grothoff, Vijay A. Saraswat, Christopher Donawa, Allan Kielstra, Kemal Ebcioglu, Christoph von Praun, Vivek Sarkar: X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing. OOPSLA 2005: 519-538
• StreamIt: homepage
• StreamIt: Language Specification
• StreamIt: William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, and Saman Amarasinghe: StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications. CC 2002.
• Titanium: homepage
• Titanium: Language Reference Manual
• Titanium: Katherine Yelick, Paul Hilfinger, Susan Graham, Dan Bonachea, Jimmy Su, Amir Kami, Kaushik Datta, Phillip Colella, and Tong Wen: Parallel Languages and Compilers: Perspective from the Titanium Experience, June 7, 2006
• ZPL: homepage
• ZPL: comic book
• ZPL: Bradford L. Chamberlain, Sung-Eun Choi, Steven J. Deitz, and Lawrence Snyder: The high-level parallel language ZPL improves productivity and performance. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Productivity and Performance in High-End Computing, 2004
• Chapel: homepage
• Chapel: language specification, Version 0.750.
• Chapel: Bradford L. Chamberlain, David Callahan, Hans P. Zima. Parallel Programmability and the Chapel Language. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, August 2007, 21(3): 291-312
• RapidMind: homepage
• RapidMind: Writing Applications for the GPU Using the RapidMind Development Platform
• RapidMind: Data-Parallel Programming on the Cell BE and the GPU using the RapidMind Development Platform. Presented Oct 31, 2006 at the GSPx Multicore Applications Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
• Cuda: homepage
• Cuda: Reference manual
• Cuda: Wikipedia entry
• Brook: homepage
• Brook: Language description
• Brook: Ian Buck, Tim Foley, Daniel Reiter Horn, Jeremy Sugerman, Kayvon Fatahalian, Mike Houston, Pat Hanrahan: Brook for GPUs: stream computing on graphics hardware. ACM Trans. Graph. 23(3): 777-786 (2004)
• Fortress: homepage
• Fortress: Eric Allen, David Chase, Joe Hallett, Victor Luchangco, Jan-Willem Maessen, Sukyoung Ryu, Guy L. Steele Jr., Sam Tobin-Hochstadt: The Fortress Language Specification Version 1.0 beta, Sun Microsystems, Inc., March 6, 2007.
• Fortress: Allen Tobin-Hochstadt: A Core Calculus of Metaclasses. FOOL 2005

Techniques

• Katherine Yelick: Parallel Languages: Past, Present and Future. HOPL 2007.
• Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters OSDI 2004.
• Kazutaka Morita, Akimasa Morihata, Kiminori Matsuzaki, Zhenjiang Hu, Masato Takeichi: Automatic inversion generates divide-and-conquer parallel programs. PLDI 2007: 146-155
• Milind Kulkarni, Keshav Pingali, Bruce Walter, Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Kavita Bala, L. Paul Chew: Optimistic parallelism requires abstractions. PLDI 2007: 211-22
• Chen Ding, Xipeng Shen, Kirk Kelsey, Chris Tice, Ruke Huang, Chengliang Zhang: Software behavior oriented parallelization. PLDI 2007: 223-234
• Shivali Agarwal, Rajkishore Barik, Vivek Sarkar, R. K. Shyamasundar: May-happen-in-parallel analysis of X10 programs. PPOPP 2007: 183-193
• Michael Gordon, William Thies, and Saman Amarasinghe: Exploiting Coarse-Grained Task, Data, and Pipeline Parallelism in Stream Programs. ASPLOS 2006.
• Armando Solar-Lezama, Gilad Arnold, Liviu Tancau, Rastislav Bodik, Vijay A. Saraswat, Sanjit A. Seshia: Sketching stencils. PLDI 2007: 167-178