Michael Garland

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Publication

M. Bauer, E. Slaughter, S. Treichler, W. Lee, M. Garland, and A. Aiken. Visibility Algorithms for Dynamic Dependence Analysis and Distributed Coherence. In Proc. 28th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP '23), February 2023.

Abstract

Implicitly parallel programming systems must solve the joint problems of dependence analysis and coherence to ensure apparently-sequential semantics for applications run on distributed memory machines. Solving these problems in the presence of data-dependent control flow and arbitrary aliasing is a challenge that most existing systems eschew by compromising the expressivity of their programming models and/or the performance of their implementations. We demonstrate a general class of solutions to these problems via a reduction to the visibility problem from computer graphics.