The ANTAREX domain specific language for high performance computing

Cristina Silvano (1) , Giovanni Agosta (1) , Andrea Bartolini (2) , Andrea R. Beccari (3) , Luca Benini (4) , Loïc Besnard (5) , João Bispo (6) , Radim Cmar (7) , João M. P. Cardoso (6) , Carlo Cavazzoni (8) , Daniele Cesarini (2) , Stefano Cherubin (1) , Federico Ficarelli (8) , Davide Gadioli (1) , Martin Golasowski (9) , Antonio Libri (10) , Jan Martinovič (9) , Gianluca Palermo (1) , Pedro Pinto (6) , Erven Rohou (11) , Kateřina Slaninová (9) , Emanuele Vitali (12)

1 DEIB - Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
2 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
3 Dompé S.p.A. [Milano]
4 D-INFK - Department of Computer Science [ETH Zürich]
5 IRISA - Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires
6 FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
7 Sygic companies [El Segundo]
8 CINECA
9 VSB - Technical University of Ostrava [Ostrava]
10 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
11 PACAP - Pushing Architecture and Compilation for Application Performance
12 DEIB - Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering [Milano]

The ANTAREX project relies on a Domain Specific Language (DSL) based on Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) concepts to allow applications to enforce extra functional properties such as energy-efficiency and performance and to optimize Quality of Service (QoS) in an adaptive way. The DSL approach allows the definition of energy-efficiency, performance, and adaptivity strategies as well as their enforcement at run-time through application autotuning and resource and power management. In this paper , we present an overview of the key outcome of the project, the ANTAREX DSL, and some of its capabilities through a number of examples, including how the DSL is applied in the context of the project use cases.

Mots clés: High Performance Computing; Autotuning; Adaptivity; DSL; Compilers; Energy Efficiency

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Cristina Silvano, Giovanni Agosta, Andrea Bartolini, Andrea R. Beccari, Luca Benini, et al.. The ANTAREX domain specific language for high performance computing. Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design , 2019, 68, pp.58-73. ⟨10.1016/j.micpro.2019.05.005⟩. ⟨hal-02189586⟩