This paper describes THEMIS, a programming model and run-time library being designed to support cross-component performance optimization through explicit manipulation of the computation's iteration space at run-time. Each component is augmented with "component dependence metadata", which characterizes the constraints on its execution order, data distribution and memory access order. We show how this supports dynamic adaptation of each component to exploit the available resources, the context in which its operands are generated, and results are used, and the evolution of the problem instance. Using a computational fluid dynamics visualization example as motivation, we show how component dependence metadata provides a framework in which a number of interesting optimizations become possible. Examples include data placement optimization, loop fusion, tiling, memoization, checkpointing and incrementalization.
THEMIS: COMPONENT DEPENDENCE METADATA IN ADAPTIVE PARALLEL APPLICATIONS
