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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.12
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108796
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10879/
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Novosel, Rok ; Slivnik, Bostjan

Beyond Classical Parallel Programming Frameworks: Chapel vs Julia

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Abstract

Although parallel programming languages have existed for decades, (scientific) parallel programming is still dominated by Fortran and C/C++ augmented with parallel programming frameworks, e.g., MPI, OpenMP, OpenCL and CUDA. This paper contains a comparative study of Chapel and Julia, two languages quite different from one another as well as from Fortran and C, in regard to parallel programming on distributed and shared memory computers. The study is carried out using test cases that expose the need for different approaches to parallel programming. Test cases are implemented in Chapel and Julia, and in C augmented with MPI and OpenMP. It is shown that both languages, Chapel and Julia, represent a viable alternative to Fortran and C/C++ augmented with parallel programming frameworks: the programmer's efficiency is considerably improved while the speed of programs is not significantly affected.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{novosel_et_al:OASIcs:2019:10879,
  author =	{Rok Novosel and Bostjan Slivnik},
  title =	{{Beyond Classical Parallel Programming Frameworks: Chapel vs Julia}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:8},
  series =	{OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Ricardo Rodrigues and Jan Janousek and Lu{\'\i}s Ferreira and Lu{\'\i}sa Coheur and Fernando Batista and Hugo Gon{\c{c}}alo Oliveira},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10879},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108796},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: parallel programming languages, Chapel, Julia}
}

Keywords: parallel programming languages, Chapel, Julia
Collection: 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 24.07.2019
Supplementary Material: The sources are at https://github.com/novoselrok/parallel-algorithms.

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