Berkeley UPC - Unified Parallel C

(A joint project of LBNL and UC Berkeley)

Publications

Optimizing Bandwidth Limited Problems Using One-Sided Communication and Overlap
C. Bell, D. Bonachea, R. Nishtala, K. Yelick.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-59207: PDF available.
20th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2006:
PDF of the conference paper is available, as well as PowerPoint slides (PPT) (PDF) from the presentation.

Evaluating Support for Global Address Space Languages on the Cray X1
C. Bell, W. Chen, D. Bonachea, K. Yelick.
ICS 2004.
PDF available.

An Evaluation of Current High-Performance Networks
C. Bell, D. Bonachea, Y. Cote, J. Duell, P. Hargrove, P. Husbands, C. Iancu, M. Welcome, K. Yelick.
17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2003.
Abstract, Postscript, PDF of the paper are available, as well as PowerPoint slides from the presentation.

A New DMA Registration Strategy for Pinning-Based High Performance Networks
C. Bell and D. Bonachea. Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC'03), 2003.
PDF of the paper available, as well as PowerPoint slides from the presentation.

GASNet Specification, v1.1
D. Bonachea. U.C. Berkeley Tech Report CSD-02-1207.
PDF available.
For the most up-to-date version of the spec, see the GASNet web page.

Problems with using MPI 1.1 and 2.0 as compilation targets for parallel language implementations
Dan Bonachea and Jason Duell.
2nd Workshop on Hardware/Software Support for High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing, SHPSEC-PACT03
Postscript and PDF of the paper available, as well as PowerPoint slides from the presentation.
Journal version:
Int. J. High Performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.91-99, 2004.
PDF available,

Communication Optimizations for Fine-grained UPC Applications
W. Chen, C. Iancu, K. Yelick.
14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2005.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-58382
PDF

HUNTing the Overlap
C. Iancu, P. Husbands, P. Hargrove.
14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), 2005.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-58381
PDF

Polynomial-time Algorithms for Enforcing Sequential Consistency in SPMD Programs with Arrays
W. Chen, A. Krishnamurthy, K. Yelick.
16th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), 2003.
PDF

Building a Source-to-Source UPC-to-C Translator
W. Chen
Masters Report, 2005.
PDF

Multi-Threading and One-Sided Communication in Parallel LU Factorization
Parry Husbands, Ketherine Yelick
Supercomputing 2007.
PDF

GASP! A Standardized Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global Address Space Programming Models
Hung-Hsun Su, Dan Bonachea, Adam Leko, Hans Sherburne, Max Billingsley III, Alan D. George
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-61659, 2006.
PDF

GASP: A Performance Analysis Tool Interface for Global Address Space Programming Models, Specification Version 1.5
Adam Leko, Dan Bonachea, Hung-Hsun Su, and Alan D. George
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-61606, Sep 14 2006.
PDF

Message Strip Mining Heuristics for High Speed Networks
C. Iancu, P. Husbands, W. Chen.
VECPAR 2004.
Postscript

A Performance Analysis of the Berkeley UPC Compiler
W. Chen, D. Bonachea, J. Duell, P. Husbands, C. Iancu, K. Yelick.
17th Annual International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2003.
Postscript, PDF, and the presentation slides available.

UPC Language Specifications, v1.2
UPC Consortium
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Tech Report LBNL-59208, 2005.
PDF available.
Proposal for Extending the UPC Memory Copy Library Functions, v2.0 (March 22, 2007)
D. Bonachea
UPC Community Forum, 2007.
PDF available.
Same document with additional sections describing supporting GASNet extensions:
PDF available.
The archival version for citation in publication is:
A Proposal for a UPC Memory Consistency Model, v1.1 (Aug 30, 2004)
K. Yelick, D. Bonachea and C. Wallace
PS and PDF available.
The archival version for citation in publication is:
UPC-IO: A Parallel I/O API for UPC, v1.0
T. El-Ghazawi, F. Cantonnet, P. Saha, R. Thakur, R. Ross, D. Bonachea
UPC community forum, 2003.
PDF available.
Introduction to UPC and Language Specification
W. Carlson, J. Draper, D. Culler, K. Yelick, E. Brooks, and K. Warren. CCS-TR-99-157, IDA Center for Computing Sciences, 1999.
PDF available.
For the most up-to-date version of the spec, see the UPC Language Community web page.

Programming in UPC (Unified Parallel C), CS267 Lecture, Spring 2006
Katherine Yelick, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Dan O Bonachea, Christian Bell, Wei Chen, Jason Duell, Paul Hargrove, Parry Husbands, Costin Iancu, Rajesh Nishtala, Mike Welcome
PDF slides PPT slides

Experiences Implementing Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Languages on InfiniBand
Paul H. Hargrove, Dan Bonachea, Christian Bell
OpenFabrics Alliance 2008 International Sonoma Workshop, April 2008
PDF slides PPT slides

Optimized Collectives for PGAS Languages with One-Sided Communication, SuperComputing, Nov 2006
Dan Bonachea, Rajesh Nishtala, Paul Hargrove, Mike Welcome, Kathy Yelick
PDF poster

Efficient Point-to-Point Synchronization in UPC
Dan Bonachea, Rajesh Nishtala, Paul Hargrove, Katherine Yelick
2nd Conf. on Partitioned Global Address Space Programming Models (PGAS06), October 2006
PDF slides PPT slides

GASP: A Performance Tool Interface for Global Address Space Languages & Libraries, PARA, July 2006
Adam Leko, Dan Bonachea, Hung-Hsun Su
PDF slides PPT slides

The Performance and Productivity Benefits of Global Address Space Languages, SuperComputing, Nov 2005
Dan O Bonachea, Christian Bell, Rajesh Nishtala, Kaushik Datta, Parry Husbands, Paul Hargrove, Katherine Yelick
PDF poster