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New OmpSs release 16.06

- Written by Sergi Mateo


Mercurium compiler: 2.0.0
Nanos++ RT Library: 0.10
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The programming models team is glad to announce you the release of the new stable version of OmpSs, which is based on the latest Mercurium and Nanos++ 0.10.

Apart from several bug-fixes in both tools, the main features introduced in this new version are:

  • New cluster support
    • Execute OmpSs programs transparently on top of a distributed memory system (CUDA & OpenCL devices are also supported).
    • Network communication is implemented using GASNet, which provides support for modern High Performance networking technologies.
    • Several optimization mechanisms allow to maximize the performance of applications running on a cluster: a data affinity scheduling policy distributes and minimizes the network activity, task presend allows the OmpSs run-time to overlap communication with computation.
  • Support for non-contiguous data
    • Tasks can reference non-contiguous, multi-dimensional data, which eases the implementation of some applications.
  • Thread manager
    • The Thread Manager module dynamically controls the amount of working threads needed for a specific amount of workload (info)
  • Task reductions
    • Extend the task construct adding support to the reduction clause (info)
    • Enhance the support of user-defined reductions (info)
  • Enhanced support for Dynamic Load Balancing

If you have any doubt or question, feel free to contact us at: pm-tools [at] bsc.es