The Cilk++ Concurrency Platform

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Leiserson, Charles E.
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Abstract
The availability of multicore processors across a wide range of computing platforms has created a strong demand for software frameworks that can harness these resources. This paper overviews the Cilk++ programming environment, which incorporates a compiler, a runtime system, and a race-detection tool. The Cilk++ runtime system guarantees to load-balance computations effectively. To cope with legacy codes containing global variables, Cilk++ provides a "hyperobject" library which allows races on nonlocal variables to be mitigated without lock contention or substantial code restructuring.
Date issued
2009-01
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59828
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference, DAC '09
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
Leiserson, Charles E. "The Cilk++ concurrency platform." Proceedings of the 46th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC '09) pp.522-527. ©2009 Association for Computing Machinery.
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ISBN
978-1-60558-497-3
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