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Apr 12, 2016
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Pedro Gonnet
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clearer wording on why we built our own task-based library.
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@@ -342,13 +342,14 @@ SMP~Superscalar \cite{ref:SMPSuperscalar}, OpenMP~3.0 \cite{ref:Duran2009},
Intel's TBB
\cite
{
ref:Reinders2007
}
, and, to some extent,
Charm++
\cite
{
ref:Kale1993
}
.
For convenience, and to make experimenting with different scheduling
techniques easier, we chose to implement our own task scheduler
Since none of these existing taks-based libraries provide the flexibility
required to make experiment with different scheduling and communication
techniques, we chose to implement our own task scheduler
in
\swift
, which has since been back-ported as the general-purpose
\qs
task scheduler
\cite
{
gonnet2013quicksched
}
.
This also allowed us to extend the scheduler with the concept of
task conflicts and integrate the asynchronous communication
scheme described
below
.
scheme described
further on
.
Despite its advantages, and the variety of implementations,
task-based parallelism is rarely used in
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