@article {1176,
	title = {Argobots: A Lightweight Low-Level Threading and Tasking Framework},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017-10},
	abstract = {In the past few decades, a number of user-level threading and tasking models have been proposed in the literature to address the shortcomings of OS-level threads, primarily with respect to cost and flexibility. Current state-of-the-art user-level threading and tasking models, however, are either too specific to applications or architectures or are not as powerful or flexible. In this paper, we present Argobots, a lightweight, low-level threading and tasking framework that is designed as a portable and performant substrate for high-level programming models or runtime systems. Argobots offers a carefully designed execution model that balances generality of functionality with providing a rich set of controls to allow specialization by the user or high-level programming model. We describe the design, implementation, and optimization of Argobots and present integrations with three example high-level models: OpenMP, MPI, and co-located I/O service. Evaluations show that (1) Argobots outperforms existing generic threading runtimes; (2) our OpenMP runtime offers more efficient interoperability capabilities than production OpenMP runtimes do; (3) when MPI interoperates with Argobots instead of Pthreads, it enjoys reduced synchronization costs and better latency hiding capabilities; and (4) I/O service with Argobots reduces interference with co-located applications, achieving performance competitive with that of the Pthreads version.},
	keywords = {Argobots, context switch, I/O, interoperability, lightweight, MPI, OpenMP, stackable scheduler, tasklet, user-level thread},
	doi = {10.1109/TPDS.2017.2766062},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8082139/},
	author = {Sangmin Seo and Abdelhalim Amer and Pavan Balaji and Cyril Bordage and George Bosilca and Alex Brooks and Philip Carns and Adrian Castello and Damien Genet and Thomas Herault and Shintaro Iwasaki and Prateek Jindal and Sanjay Kale and Sriram Krishnamoorthy and Jonathan Lifflander and Huiwei Lu and Esteban Meneses and Mar Snir and Yanhua Sun and Kenjiro Taura and Pete Beckman}
}
@article {icl:643,
	title = {The International Exascale Software Project Roadmap},
	journal = {International Journal of High Performance Computing},
	volume = {25},
	number = {1},
	year = {2011},
	month = {2011-01},
	pages = {3-60},
	abstract = {Over the last 20 years, the open-source community has provided more and more software on which the world{\textquoteright}s high-performance computing systems depend for performance and productivity. The community has invested millions of dollars and years of effort to build key components. However, although the investments in these separate software elements have been tremendously valuable, a great deal of productivity has also been lost because of the lack of planning, coordination, and key integration of technologies necessary to make them work together smoothly and efficiently, both within individual petascale systems and between different systems. It seems clear that this completely uncoordinated development model will not provide the software needed to support the unprecedented parallelism required for peta/ exascale computation on millions of cores, or the flexibility required to exploit new hardware models and features, such as transactional memory, speculative execution, and graphics processing units. This report describes the work of the community to prepare for the challenges of exascale computing, ultimately combing their efforts in a coordinated International Exascale Software Project.},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342010391989},
	author = {Jack Dongarra and Pete Beckman and Terry Moore and Patrick Aerts and Giovanni Aloisio and Jean-Claude Andre and David Barkai and Jean-Yves Berthou and Taisuke Boku and Bertrand Braunschweig and Franck Cappello and Barbara Chapman and Xuebin Chi and Alok Choudhary and Sudip Dosanjh and Thom Dunning and Sandro Fiore and Al Geist and Bill Gropp and Robert Harrison and Mark Hereld and Michael Heroux and Adolfy Hoisie and Koh Hotta and Zhong Jin and Yutaka Ishikawa and Fred Johnson and Sanjay Kale and Richard Kenway and David Keyes and Bill Kramer and Jesus Labarta and Alain Lichnewsky and Thomas Lippert and Bob Lucas and Barney MacCabe and Satoshi Matsuoka and Paul Messina and Peter Michielse and Bernd Mohr and Matthias S. Mueller and Wolfgang E. Nagel and Hiroshi Nakashima and Michael E. Papka and Dan Reed and Mitsuhisa Sato and Ed Seidel and John Shalf and David Skinner and Marc Snir and Thomas Sterling and Rick Stevens and Fred Streitz and Bob Sugar and Shinji Sumimoto and William Tang and John Taylor and Rajeev Thakur and Anne Trefethen and Mateo Valero and Aad van der Steen and Jeffrey Vetter and Peg Williams and Robert Wisniewski and Kathy Yelick}
}
