UPC++ v1.0 Publications

UPC++ Primary Publications and Documents (BibTeX file)

Please use the following information for citations:

• John Bachan, Scott B. Baden, Steven Hofmeyr, Mathias Jacquelin, Amir Kamil, Dan Bonachea, Paul H. Hargrove, Hadia Ahmed.
  "UPC++: A High-Performance Communication Framework for Asynchronous Computation",
  In 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'19), May 20-24, 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. IEEE. 11 pages.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S4V88H
  Talk slides

• Dan Bonachea, Amir Kamil.
  "UPC++ v1.0 Specification, Revision 2023.3.0",
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tech Report (LBNL-2001516). 31 Mar 2023.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S46W2J

• John Bachan, Scott B. Baden, Dan Bonachea, Johnny Corbino, Max Grossman, Paul H. Hargrove, Steven Hofmeyr, Mathias Jacquelin, Amir Kamil, Brian van Straalen, Daniel Waters.
  "UPC++ v1.0 Programmer's Guide, Revision 2023.3.0",
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tech Report (LBNL-2001517). 30 Mar 2023.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S43591

• Older revisions of the UPC++ v1.0 Specification and Programmer's Guide

UPC++ Other Publications

• Dan Bonachea, Amir Kamil.
  "Optimization of Asynchronous Communication Operations through Eager Notifications",
  In 2021 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'21), St. Louis, MO, Nov 2021. 10 pages.
  Paper: https://doi.org/10.25344/S42C71
  Video presentation
  Talk slides

• Daniel Waters, Colin A. MacLean, Dan Bonachea, Paul H. Hargrove.
  "Demonstrating UPC++/Kokkos Interoperability in a Heat Conduction Simulation",
  In 2021 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'21) St. Louis, MO, Nov 2021. 5 pages.
  Paper: https://doi.org/10.25344/S4630V
  Video presentation
  Talk slides

• Dan Bonachea.
  "UPC++ as_eager Working Group Draft, Revision 2020.6.2",
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tech Report (LBNL-2001416). 9 Aug 2021. 10 pages.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S4FK5R

• John Bachan, Dan Bonachea, Paul H. Hargrove, Steven Hofmeyr, Mathias Jacquelin, Amir Kamil, Brian van Straalen, Scott B. Baden.
  "The UPC++ PGAS library for Exascale Computing: Extended Abstract".
  In PAW17: Second Annual PGAS Applications Workshop, November 12-17, 2017, Denver, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages.
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3144779.3169108

UPC++ Posters and Presentations

• "Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing using Chapel, UPC++ and Coarray Fortran",
  Tutorial at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), November 12, 2023.
  More information

• "Virtual Tutorial: Introduction to High-Performance Parallel Distributed Computing using Chapel, UPC++ and Coarray Fortran",
  ECP/OLCF/NERSC Tutorial, July 26-27, 2023.

• "UPC++ Users Virtual Birds-of-a-Feather", Feb 16, 2023.

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, Jan 2023.

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, May 2022.

• "UPC++: An Asynchronous RMA/RPC Library for Distributed C++ Applications",
  Tutorial at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC21), Nov 15, 2021.
  More information

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, April 2021.

• Hargrove, P. "Overview of UPC++: An Asynchronous RMA/RPC Library for Distributed C++ Applications",
  Berkeley Lab CS Seminar, February 22, 2021.

• "UPC++: An Asynchronous RMA/RPC Library for Distributed C++ Applications",
  Tutorial at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC20), Nov 10, 2020.
  More information

• "UPC++ Users Interactive Webinar", Aug 26, 2020.
  Slides from the event

• "UPC++: An Asynchronous RMA/RPC Library for Distributed C++ Applications",
  Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) Webinar Series, May 27, 2020.
  Video presentation

• "UPC++: A PGAS/RPC Library for Asynchronous Exascale Communication in C++",
  Tutorial at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting 2020.

• "UPC++: Asynchronous RMA and RPC Communication for Exascale Applications",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, February 2020.

• "Pagoda: Lightweight Communications and Global Address Space Support for Exascale Applications - UPC++",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, January 2019.

• "UPC++ Tutorial",
  Tutorial at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), December 16, 2019.
  Video presentation

• "UPC++ Tutorial",
  Tutorial at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), November 1, 2019.

• "UPC++ and GASNet-EX: PGAS Support for Exascale Applications and Runtimes",
  Poster at SuperComputing (SC18), November 2018.
  Extended Abstract

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, February 2018.

• "UPC++: a PGAS C++ Library",
  Poster at SuperComputing (SC17), November 2017.

• "UPC and UPC++: Partitioned Global Address Space Languages",
  Presentation at Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), August 2017.
  Video presentation

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, January 2017.

UPC++ v0.1 Publications

GASNet / GASNet-EX : Selected Publications and Presentations (BibTeX file)

GASNet-EX is the communications runtime used by UPC++.
Also see the complete GASNet publication list

• Bonachea D, Hargrove P.
  "GASNet-EX: A High-Performance, Portable Communication Library for Exascale",
  Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC'18).
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Technical Report (LBNL-2001174). Sep 2018.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S4QP4W
  Talk slides

• Hargrove P, Bonachea D.
  "GASNet-EX RMA Communication Performance on Recent Supercomputing Systems"
  In 2022 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'22), November 2022.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S40C7D
  Talk Slides

• Hargrove P, Bonachea D.
  "Efficient Active Message RMA in GASNet Using a Target-Side Reassembly Protocol"
  In 2019 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'19), November 2019.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S4PC7M
  Talk Slides

• Hargrove P, Bonachea D.
  "GASNet-EX Performance Improvements Due to Specialization for the Cray Aries Network"
  In 2018 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI (PAW-ATM'18), November 2018.
  https://doi.org/10.1109/PAW-ATM.2018.00008
  Talk Slides

• Bonachea D, Hargrove P.
  "GASNet Specification, v1.8.1",
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tech Report (LBNL-2001064). 31 Aug 2017. 36 pages.
  https://doi.org/10.2172/1398512 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/03b5g0q4

GASNet-EX Posters and Presentations

• Bonachea, D. "GASNet-EX: A High-Performance, Portable Communication Library for Exascale",
  Berkeley Lab CS Seminar, March 10, 2021.

• Hargrove P., Bonachea D., MacLean C., Waters, D.
  "GASNet-EX Memory Kinds: Support for Device Memory in PGAS Programming Models",
  Research Poster at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC21). Nov 2021.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S4P306
  Video presentation

• "GASNet-EX: RMA and Active Message Communication for Exascale Programming Models",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, February 2020.

• "Pagoda: Lightweight Communications and Global Address Space Support for Exascale Applications - GASNet-EX",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, January 2019.

• "UPC++ and GASNet: PGAS Support for Exascale Apps and Runtimes",
  Poster at Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Annual Meeting, February 2018.

UPC++ v1.0 Application Partners: Publications and Presentations

• Julian Bellavita, Mathias Jacquelin, Esmond G. Ng, Dan Bonachea, Johnny Corbino, Paul H. Hargrove.
  "symPACK: A GPU-Capable Fan-Out Sparse Cholesky Solver",
  In 2023 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'23).
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S49P45
  Talk Slides

• H.N. Phan, S.VU. Ha, P.H. Ha,
  "Towards Communication-Efficient Distributed Background Subtraction"
  In: Recent Challenges in Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2022). Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1716. Springer, Singapore.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8234-7_38

• Yakup Budanaz, Mario Wille, Michael Bader.
  "Asynchronous Workload Balancing through Persistent Work-Stealing and Offloading for a Distributed Actor Model Library"
  In 2022 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'22).
  https://doi.org/10.1109/PAW-ATM56565.2022.00009

• B. B. Fraguela, D. Andrade.
  "The new UPC++ DepSpawn high performance library for data-flow computing with hybrid parallelism".
  International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2022). Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 13350. pp. 761–774, June 2022.
  http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08751-6_55

• M. G. Awan, S. Hofmeyr, R. Egan, N. Ding, A. Buluc, J. Deslippe, L. Oliker, K. Yelick.
  "Accelerating large scale de novo metagenome assembly using GPUs". Best paper finalist
  International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC21), Nov 2021.
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3458817.3476212

• M. Moses, S. Hofmeyr, J. Cannon, A. Andrews, R. Gridley, M. Hinga, K. Leyba, A. Pribisova, V. Surjadidjaja, H. Tasnim, S. Forrest
  "Spatially distributed infection increases viral load in a computational model of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection"
  PLOS Computational Biology 17(12) (2021)
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009735

• M. Bogusz, P. Samfass, A. Pöppl, J. Klinkenberg, M. Bader
  "Evaluation of Multiple HPC Parallelization Frameworks in a Shallow Water Proxy Application with Multi-Rate Local Time Stepping"
  In 2020 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'20).
  https://doi.org/10.1109/PAWATM51920.2020.00008

• August 2020 UPC++ User Webinar BoF Slides

• S. Hofmeyr, R. Egan, E. Georganas, A. Copeland, R. Riley, A. Clum, E. Eloe-Fadrosh, S. Roux, E. Goltsman, A. Buluç, D. Rokhsar, L. Oliker and K. Yelick
  "Terabase-scale metagenome coassembly with MetaHipMer". Scientific Reports 10, 10689 (2020).
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67416-5

• A. Pöppl, M. Bader and S. Baden
  "A UPC++ Actor Library and Its Evaluation on a Shallow Water Proxy Application",
  In 2019 IEEE/ACM Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X (PAW-ATM'19), November 2019.
  https://doi.org/10.25344/S43G60
  Talk Slides

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