Parallel Design Patterns in Ptolemy II using Higher-order Actors EE290N Project Report
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The ubiquity of multicore processors nowadays allows for increased performance in applications that are parallelizable. We focus on achieving high performance for a class of data parallel applications which have a static schedule of actor firings. These applications can be run efficiently in parallel and correctly if the actors are stateless. We present a new execution model based on multiplexing receivers on SDF models. We have implemented a new director, receivers, domain specific actors in the Ptolemy II framework. We show that using this model, data parallel applications can be executed with near linear speedup. The receiver multiplexing paradigm can be extended to efficiently execute actor recursion as well.
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