While parallel programming for very regular problems has been used in the
scientific community by non-computer-scientists successfully for a few decades
now, concurrent programming and solving irregular problems remains hard.
Furthermore, we shift from few expert system programmers mastering concurrency
for a constrained set of problems to mainstream application developers being
required to master concurrency for a wide variety of problems.
Consequently, high-level language virtual machine (VM) research faces
interesting questions. What are processor design changes that have an impact
on the abstractions provided by VMs to provide platform independence? How can
application programmers' diverse needs be facilitated to solve concurrent
programming problems?
We argue that VMs will need to be ready for a wide range of different
concurrency models that allow solving concurrency problems with appropriate
abstractions. Furthermore, they need to abstract from heterogeneous processor
architectures, varying performance characteristics, need to account for memory
access cost and inter-core communication mechanisms but should only expose
the minimal useful set of notions like locality, explicit communication, and
adaptable scheduling to maintain their abstracting nature.
Eventually, language designers need to be enabled to guarantee properties
like encapsulation, scheduling guarantees, and immutability also when an
interaction between different problem-specific concurrency abstractions is
required.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 VMIL11
%A Marr, Stefan
%A De Wael, Mattias
%A Haupt, Michael
%A D'Hondt, Theo
%B Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages
%D 2011
%I ACM
%K Concurrency Encapsulation ManyCore MeMyPublication MultiCore PositionPaper Scheduling Survey VMIL VMs myown
%P 341--348
%R 10.1145/2095050.2095104
%T Which Problems Does a Multi-Language Virtual Machine Need to Solve in the Multicore/Manycore Era?
%U http://www.stefan-marr.de/2011/09/which-problems-does-a-multi-language-virtual-machine-need-to-solve-in-the-multicoremanycore-era/
%X While parallel programming for very regular problems has been used in the
scientific community by non-computer-scientists successfully for a few decades
now, concurrent programming and solving irregular problems remains hard.
Furthermore, we shift from few expert system programmers mastering concurrency
for a constrained set of problems to mainstream application developers being
required to master concurrency for a wide variety of problems.
Consequently, high-level language virtual machine (VM) research faces
interesting questions. What are processor design changes that have an impact
on the abstractions provided by VMs to provide platform independence? How can
application programmers' diverse needs be facilitated to solve concurrent
programming problems?
We argue that VMs will need to be ready for a wide range of different
concurrency models that allow solving concurrency problems with appropriate
abstractions. Furthermore, they need to abstract from heterogeneous processor
architectures, varying performance characteristics, need to account for memory
access cost and inter-core communication mechanisms but should only expose
the minimal useful set of notions like locality, explicit communication, and
adaptable scheduling to maintain their abstracting nature.
Eventually, language designers need to be enabled to guarantee properties
like encapsulation, scheduling guarantees, and immutability also when an
interaction between different problem-specific concurrency abstractions is
required.
%@ 978-1-4503-1183-0
@inproceedings{VMIL11,
abstract = {While parallel programming for very regular problems has been used in the
scientific community by non-computer-scientists successfully for a few decades
now, concurrent programming and solving irregular problems remains hard.
Furthermore, we shift from few expert system programmers mastering concurrency
for a constrained set of problems to mainstream application developers being
required to master concurrency for a wide variety of problems.
Consequently, high-level language virtual machine (VM) research faces
interesting questions. What are processor design changes that have an impact
on the abstractions provided by VMs to provide platform independence? How can
application programmers' diverse needs be facilitated to solve concurrent
programming problems?
We argue that VMs will need to be ready for a wide range of different
concurrency models that allow solving concurrency problems with appropriate
abstractions. Furthermore, they need to abstract from heterogeneous processor
architectures, varying performance characteristics, need to account for memory
access cost and inter-core communication mechanisms but should only expose
the minimal useful set of notions like locality, explicit communication, and
adaptable scheduling to maintain their abstracting nature.
Eventually, language designers need to be enabled to guarantee properties
like encapsulation, scheduling guarantees, and immutability also when an
interaction between different problem-specific concurrency abstractions is
required.},
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publisher = {ACM},
series = {VMIL '11},
timestamp = {2017-06-06T17:46:20.000+0200},
title = {Which Problems Does a Multi-Language Virtual Machine Need to Solve in the Multicore/Manycore Era?},
url = {http://www.stefan-marr.de/2011/09/which-problems-does-a-multi-language-virtual-machine-need-to-solve-in-the-multicoremanycore-era/},
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