Hi Jake,

I could provide more details about the HPXCL, espacially the CUDA
support there. We could do a Skype meeting or a chat in Google Hangouts.

Best,

Patrick

Am 07/06/2016 um 11:35 PM schrieb Hemstad, Jacob:
> ​Hello,
> 
> 
> My name is Jake Hemstad, I'm a High Performance Computing researcher at
> Sandia National Laboratories while working on my PhD through the
> University of Minnesota. 
> 
> 
> I work with Mike Heroux at Sandia and we are currently working on
> creating detailed (2-3 pages) summaries targeted towards the HPC
> community of many of the modern task-parallel runtimes.
> 
> 
> I'm currently summarizing HPX (your HPX, which we call HPX-3) and I've
> included my current draft of the HPX summary and I'm hoping you can
> point out what I've got wrong and the important bits I've left out. HPX
> has definitely been the neatest runtime I've summarized thus far and I'd
> like to get it right. 
> 
> 
> I was also hoping to pick the brains of one of you over at LSU to answer
> a number of questions I have had difficulty finding answers to in the
> documentation. What I would really enjoy is a phone call with someone
> who is willing to chat with me for a while and put up with a peppering
> of questions, but I'll try and provide a sampling of what I'm still
> trying to figure out:
> 
> 
>   * ​What is the state of GPU support in HPX? 
>       o I've seen "percolation" mentioned several times in both the
>         ParalleX and HPX description in relation to accelerators, but
>         have yet to find any concrete explanation of what it is. 
>       o I've read your blog post here
>         
> <http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/2016/02/c-and-the-heterogeneous-challenge/> and
>         poster here
>         <http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/pubs/stumpf_poster_mandelbrot.pdf> and
>         I'm still hoping for more details. I've also looked through your
>         HPXCL repo <https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpxcl> and I
>         haven't been able to find a detailed overview of what HPXCL does
>         or how it works. 
>   * Threads are first class objects (i.e. have a globally accessible
>     name in the AGAS)?
>       o ​This is a key point in several of the ParalleX and HPX papers,
>         but I don't see how this is realized in HPX-3. 
>       o In fact, given this talk​
>         <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OCUEgSNIAY> by Hartmut, I'm
>         surprised that threads would be first class objects in HPX-3. 
>       o Is this simply a remnant of ParalleX that you've since moved
>         away from?
>   * I need some help to more concretely understand executors
> 
> Thank you for any and all help you'd be willing to provide.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jake
> 
> 
> 
> 
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