CITATION.cff

type: conference-paper
abstract: >-
  Developing software to effectively take advantage of growth in parallel
  and distributed processing capacity poses significant challenges.
  Traditional programming techniques allow a user to assume that execution,
  message passing, and memory are always kept synchronized. However,
  maintaining this consistency becomes increasingly costly at scale. One
  proposed strategy is "best-effort computing", which relaxes
  synchronization and hardware reliability requirements, accepting
  nondeterminism in exchange for efficiency. Although many programming
  languages and frameworks aim to facilitate software development for high
  performance applications, existing tools do not directly provide a
  prepackaged best-effort interface. The Conduit C++ Library aims to provide
  such an interface for convenient implementation of software that uses
  best-effort inter-thread and inter-process communication. Here, we
  describe the motivation, objectives, design, and implementation of the
  library. Benchmarks on a communication-intensive graph coloring problem
  and a compute-intensive digital evolution simulation show that Conduit's
  best-effort model can improve scaling efficiency and solution quality,
  particularly in a distributed, multi-node context.
date-released: 2021-07-01
license: MIT
version: 0.1.0
authors:
  - affiliation: Michigan State University
    family-names: Moreno
    given-names: Matthew Andres
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4726-4479'
  - affiliation: Michigan State University
    family-names: Rodriguez Papa
    given-names: Santiago
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6028-2105'
  - affiliation: Michigan State University
    family-names: Ofria
    given-names: Charles
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2924-1732'
publisher:
  name: Association for Computing Machinery
  city: New York
  region: NY
  country: USA
pages: 6
url: 'https://doi.org/10.1145/3449726.3463205'
doi: '10.1145/3449726.3463205'
start: 1795
end: 1800
year: 2021
keywords:
  - best-effort computing
  - high performance computing
isbn: 9781450383516
cff-version: 1.1.0
message: 'Please consult docs/citing.md to cite this software.'
title: 'Conduit: A C++ Library for Best-Effort High Performance Computing'