New implementation of a BSP composition primitive with application to the implementation of algorithmic skeletons
Frédéric Gava, Ilias Garnier · 2009
BSML is a ML based language designed to code Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) algorithms. It allows an estimation of execution time, avoids deadlocks and non-determinism. BSML proposes an extension of ML programming with a small set of primitives. One of these primitives, called parallel superposition, allows the parallel composition of two BSP programs. Nevertheless, its past implementation used system threads and have unjustified limitations. This paper presents a new implementation of this primitive based on a continuation-passing-style (CPS) transformation guided by a flow analysis. To test it and show its usefulness, we also have implemented the OCamlP3l algorithmic skeletons and compared their efficiencies with the original ones.