ICL Research Profile

Overview

The Scalable Run Time for Highly Parallel, Heterogeneous Systems (ScaRT) project aims to increase the scientific throughput of existing and future cyberinfrastructure platforms by reducing communication overheads; improving the match between modern, parallel-computing frameworks and the applications running on top; and by better matching the functionality of the underlying communication library to the capabilities of modern communication adapters.

To this end, SCaRT brings together a multidisciplinary team to (1) design and implement a communication library with new communication primitives; (2) accelerate multiple task-based runtimes (e.g., Legion and PaRSEC) and communication libraries (e.g., MPI and GasNET); (3) port key components to a programmable NIC; and (4) deliver improvements and extensions to mainstream communication libraries to provide the new functionality.