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Semantics, Logics, and Calculi Semantics, Logics, and Calculi pp 236-251 | Cite as

Replicating Data for Better Performances in X10


Linguistic primitives for replica-aware coordination offer suitable solutions to the challenging problems of data distribution and locality in large-scale high-performance computing. The data replication mechanisms that had previously been designed to extend Klaim with replicated tuples are now used to experiment with X10, a parallel programming language primarily targeting clusters of multi-core processors linked in a large-scale system via high-performance networks. Our approach aims at allowing the programmer to specify and coordinate the replication of shared data items by taking into account the desired consistency properties. The programmer can hence exploit such flexible mechanisms to adapt data distribution and locality to the needs of the application, in order to improve performance in terms of concurrency and data access. We investigate issues related to replica consistency and provide a performance analysis, which includes scenarios where replica-based specifications and relaxed consistency provide significant performance gains.


Shared Data Tuple Space Atomic Block Read Access Global Address Space



This research has been supported by the European projects IP 257414 ASCENS and STReP 600708 QUANTICOL, and by the Italian project PRIN 2010LHT4KM CINA. We are grateful to the managers of the (High Performance) Computing services of IMT and DTU for their support to our experimental investigations and we would like to thank the editors of this volume for giving us the possibility of contributing. Most of all, we would like to thank Hanne and Flemming for all the discussions we have had on many occasions and for believing in the usefulness of Klaim, sometimes even more than its inventors. Without their interest in that language this paper would have never been written.

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Andrić M., De Nicola R., Lluch Lafuente A. (2016) Replicating Data for Better Performances in X10. In: Probst C., Hankin C., Hansen R. (eds) Semantics, Logics, and Calculi. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9560. Springer, Cham



