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Pyjama: OpenMP-like implementation for Java, with GUI extensions

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Nasser Giacaman,

Oliver SinnenAuthors Info & Claims

PMAM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores

Pages 43 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/2442992.2442997

Published: 23 February 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Incremental parallelism is an uncomplicated and expressive parallelisation practice and has led to wide adoption of OpenMP. However, the OpenMP specification does not present a binding for the Java language and the OpenMP threading model finds limited use for GUI (Graphical User Interface) application development. Our research strives towards supporting OpenMP-like directives to simplify parallelism for Java and address the limitations of the OpenMP model in the development of interactive applications.

We present a compiler-runtime system for OpenMP-like directives in Java, enhanced with GUI-aware mechanisms. This paper describes the compiler and the runtime. We introduce GUI-aware directives and propose methods for incremental concurrency. We present and discuss the performance of programs written using our system by comparing them with previous attempts and traditional ways of parallelisation, using the parallel Java Grande Forum (JGF) benchmarks and a fractal-generation application with a GUI.

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Pyjama: OpenMP-like implementation for Java, with GUI extensions
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Concurrent programming structures
      2. Language types
        Object oriented languages
        Parallel programming languages

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PMAM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores

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ISBN:9781450319089

DOI:10.1145/2442992

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Argonne National Laboratory
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Zhiyi Huang
University of Otago, New Zealand

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