Bottom-Up Logic Programming for Multicores
Flávio Cruz, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Seth Copen Goldstein, Ricardo Rocha and Frank Pfenning
January 2012
Abstract
In the Claytronics project, we have used Meld, a logic programming
language suitable for writing scalable and concise distributed
programs for ensembles. Meld allows declarative code to be compiled
into distributed code that can be executed in thousands of computing
units. We are now using Meld to program more traditional algorithms
that run on multicore machines. We made several modifications to the
core language, to the compiler and to the runtime system to take
advantage of the characteristics of the target architecture. Our
experimental results show that the new compiler and runtime system are
capable of exploiting implicit parallelism in programs such as graph
algorithms, neural networks and belief propagation algorithms.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{cruz-damp12-short,
author = {F. Cruz and M. P. Ashley-Rollman and S. C. Goldstein and R. Rocha and F. Pfenning},
title = {{Bottom-Up Logic Programming for Multicores}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Declarative Aspects
and Applications of Multicore Programming (DAMP 2012) - Short Papers},
publisher = {ACM},
editor = {V. Santos Costa},
month = {January},
year = {2012},
address = {Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA},
}
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