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Heterogeneous Active Messages (HAM) — Implementing Lightweight Remote Procedure Calls in C++

  • We present HAM (Heterogeneous Active Messages), a C++-only active messaging solution for heterogeneous distributed systems.Combined with a communication protocol, HAM can be used as a generic Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism. It has been used in HAM-Offload to implement a low-overhead offloading framework for inter- and intra-node offloading between different architectures including accelerators like the Intel Xeon Phi x100 series and the NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA Vector Engine. HAM uses template meta-programming to implicitly generate active message types and their corresponding handler functions. Heterogeneity is enabled by providing an efficient address translation mechanism between the individual handler code addresses of processes running different binaries on different architectures, as well a hooks to inject serialisation and deserialisation code on a per-type basis. Implementing such a solution in modern C++ sheds some light on the shortcomings and grey areas of the C++ standard when it comes to distributed and heterogeneous environments.

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Author:Matthias NoackORCiD
Document Type:In Proceedings
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on OpenCL, The Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ (DHPCC++ 2019) Conference
Year of first publication:2019
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3318170.3318195
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