Portability of Parallel and Distributed Applications

Portability has become an important consideration in
parallel application design. The word
portable, or portability, has been widely and often
used in the parallel processing community.
However, there is no adequate, commonly accepted
definition of portability evaluation available.
Portability evaluation of parallel application is
difficult to quantify, evaluate, and compare. This
work is an attempt to establish a framework called
Scalable Portability Evaluation Methodology
(SPEM) for analyzing the parallel portability.
The novelty of SPEM methodology is in its ability to
compare, evaluate, and analyze the
parallel portability over different applications and
architecture. Portable speedup and efficiency
metrics are defined and function as the basis for
the definition of a new parallel portability metric
called Portability Degree (PD). Based on the new
metric, the Scalable Portability (SP) approach
to analyze portability of a parallel system is
formally defined.

Autorentext

Ami Marowka is an adjunct assistant professor at the Computer
Science Department of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He received
MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel.

His research interests include portability of HPC applications,
parallel computing, and tools for parallel computers.

Klappentext

Portability has become an important consideration in
parallel application design. The word
portable, or portability, has been widely and often
used in the parallel processing community.
However, there is no adequate, commonly accepted
definition of portability evaluation available.
Portability evaluation of parallel application is
difficult to quantify, evaluate, and compare. This
work is an attempt to establish a framework called
Scalable Portability Evaluation Methodology
(SPEM) for analyzing the parallel portability.
The novelty of SPEM methodology is in its ability to
compare, evaluate, and analyze the
parallel portability over different applications and
architecture. Portable speedup and efficiency
metrics are defined and function as the basis for
the definition of a new parallel portability metric
called Portability Degree (PD). Based on the new
metric, the Scalable Portability (SP) approach
to analyze portability of a parallel system is
formally defined.