Workshop: P.O.R.T.S. Conference Support

便携式运行时系统（PORTS）是一个由研究型大学、国家实验室和计算机供应商组成的联盟，他们对推进软件系统的研究感兴趣，这些软件系统在运行时为当前和下一代超级计算机的编译器和工具提供支持。小组的具体目标是：(i)提供一个论坛，就与并行及分布式计算有关的各个方面交换信息；（ii）促进多线程、通信、动态资源管理和性能测量方面的标准应用程序编程接口（api）的发展，这些接口将用作各种任务并行和数据并行语言的编译目标；（iii）为跨并行语言和问题解决环境的互操作性提供支持。（iv）鼓励开发由该联盟活动产生的社区代码存储库。在接下来的12个月里，这个小组计划把重点放在三类主要的通信原语上：(i)用于点对点通信的get/put； （ii）用于控制的远程服务请求；（iii）用于线程组上的集体通信的“rope”上的缩减操作。这项工作的成果将是api的定义和文档，用于非常有效的通信和控制操作，用于开发并行编译器和并行工具的运行时支持系统。

The Portable Runtime Systems (PORTS) is a consortium of research universities, national laboratories, and computer vendors interested in advancing research for software systems that at run time provide support to compilers and tools for current and next generation supercomputers. Specific goals of the group are: (i) to provide a forum for exchange of information on various aspects related to parallel and distributed computing, (ii) to promote the development of standard applications programming interfaces (APIs) in multithreading, communication, dynamic resource management, and performance measurement that will be used as a compiler target for various task-parallel and data-parallel languages, (iii) to provide support for interoperability across parallel languages and problem solving environments, and (iv) to encourage the development of a community code repository that results from this consortium's activities. In the next 12 months this group plans to focus on three major classes of communication primitives: (i) get/put for point-to-point communication (ii) remote service request for control, and (iii) reduction operations on "ropes" for collective communication on groups of threads. The product of this effort will be the definition and document of APIs for very efficient communication and control operations to be used for the development of run-time support systems for parallel compilers and parallel tools.