Data-flow Concurrency on Distributed Multi-core Systems

The Dynamic Data-Flow model of execution has many inherit properties, such as tolerance to latencies and distributed concurrency, which make it suitable for distributed execution. Data-Driven Multithreading (DDM) is a hybrid Data-flow/Control-flow model that implements the Data-Flow principles at the Thread level on sequential processors. In this paper we demonstrated that the DataDriven Multithreading Virtual Machine (DDM-VM), can achieve high performance in Distributed Nodes (multi-core systems). A shared Global Address Space is supported across all the Nodes in the system to facilitate data movement. We have evaluated our work on both Homogeneous and Heterogeneous systems. The performance evaluation shows that the distributed execution achieves 80-84% of the maximum possible speedup using off-the-shelf networking.