Towards Safe HPC: Productivity and Performance via Rust Interfaces for a Distributed C++ Actors Library (Work in Progress)
John Albert Parrish, Nicole Wren, Tsz Hang Kiang, Akihiro Hayashi, Jeffrey Young, Vivek Sarkar · 2023
In this work-in-progress research paper, we make the case for using Rust to develop applications in the High Performance Computing (HPC) domain which is critically dependent on native C/C++ libraries. This work explores one example of Safe HPC via the design of a Rust interface to an existing distributed C++ Actors library. This existing library has been shown to deliver high performance to C++ developers of irregular Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) applications.