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"numbers and squaredNumbers are ensembles
indicate with the % sign.
Sending a message to them will cause
all members to evaluate the message,
ideally in parallel."
numbers := Sly3Ensemble
withMembersFrom: {1. 2. 3. 4. 5}.
squaredNumbers := numbers squared.
"squaredNumbers = %{1. 4. 9. 16. 25.}"
"Gerunds modify a function
to be a reduction operation"
%{true. true. false. true} andING
"Need a cartesian product?
The RoundLy adverb will execute the plus
by iterating over the operands"
%{1. 2. 3} plusRoundLY: %{10. 20. 30}
"For more examples, see Sly3SyntaxTests
in the Sly3 image."
Browser newOnClass: Sly3SyntaxTests class
| Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed about the Future Invited talk at DLS'11, SPLASH'11 by David Ungar |
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| Harnessing emergence for manycore programming: early experience integrating ensembles, adverbs, and object-based inheritance David Ungar and Sam S. Adams, IBM Research ©ACM, 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in proc. of SPLASH'10. |
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| Inconsistency Robustness for Scalability in Interactive Concurrent‑Update In-Memory MOLAP Cubes David Ungar, Doug Kimelman, and Sam Adams, IBM Research The work was published in proc. of the Inconsistency Robustness 2011 Symposium. |
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## Setting up and running the RoarVM on *nix-like Systems
cd /tmp # moving somewhere safe
# Get the VM code from github
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/smarr/RoarVM.git
cd RoarVM
# Read the INSTALL.rst file and make sure all prerequisites are meet
open INSTALL.rst || less INSTALL.rst
cd vm/build
./configure
make -j -l 1.5 # those parameters let make use all your cores
# optionally, install it: sudo make install
# get the latest image
cd ../run
wget http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/roarvm/Sly3.zip
unzip -j Sly3.zip
# Start the VM using 2 cores and 512 heap
../build/rvm -num_cores 2 -min_heap_MB 512 renaissance.image
| The Sly3 Programming Language An introduction and analysis by Pablo Inostroza Valdera |
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| Multiprocessor Smalltalk: a case study of a multiprocessor-based programming environment Joseph Pallas and David Ungar, Stanford University |
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The RoarVM is a research virtual machine, and the main goal is to make it easy to experiment with new VM techniques and languages. Thus, the RoarVM is not optimized for performance.
For the Smalltalk community as a whole, the approach with the most long-term benefit would be to integrate the techniques tested in the RoarVM into the standard SqueakVM and the Cog just-in-time compiler.
To facilitate an integration, the RoarVM uses the same code base:
interp.cThe iPad version of the RoarVM uses the standard Squeak iOS code, and replaces just the interpreter. Ok, we also added some code to be able to handle input in our images, but it is still Squeak-compatible!
The Renaissance project started in IBM Research and after involving Andrew P. Black from the Portland State University and Theo D'Hondt from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel it became an open source project.
In November 2010, IBM Research released the source code of the RoarVM and the Sly language implementation officially under the Eclipse Public License to invite feedback and participation in the project.
The main question, can we use non-deterministic programming to solve today's concurrency problems, was discuss during a birds of a feather meeting at SPLASH 2010.
SMark is the attempt to build a common benchmarking framework for Smalltalk. It inspired from the metaphor used for unit testing in SUnit, and thus, a benchmark is implemented by adding #benchMyBenchmark to a subclass of SBenchmarkSuite. The code is originally based on PBenchmark the benchmark framework used for the PinocchioVM and RoarBenchmark a framework used for performance regression testing of the RoarVM.
Since the Renaissance project started from a minimal Squeak image without support for Monticello, we needed a structured way to manage our source code.
Transporter is a tool to file out code into standard Squeak file-out format and aid it with a very basic package semantics to enable efficient source code management using Git or other file-base version control systems.
Not yet completely ready, but on a good way (just one bug left!) is a new garbage collector for the RoarVM. It is inspired by Cliff Click's Pauseless GC Algorithm and thus, will provide a scalable way of garbage collection that avoids global synchronization which interrupts all cores. Avoiding global synchronization is key to performance on systems with more than 64 cores. The RoarVM will be the first open-source interpreter VM which comes with such a pauseless GC.
Another limitation for scalable fine-grained parallelism on the RoarVM is its global scheduler. This project brings a work-stealing-based scheduler to the RoarVM to have better scalability for Sly's fine-grained parallelism, or to facilitate fork/join-like usage of the standard Smalltalk.
ReBench is our tool to execute the virtual machine benchmarks. Fully integrated with our Codespeed instance allows ReBench us to continuously track the performance of the RoarVM.
Hereby, we, the whole Renaissance team, would like to apply for the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards 2011.
Name of the Software: Sly and the RoarVM: Exploring the Smalltalk Manycore Future
License information: Sly and the RoarVM are open source under the Eclipse Public License
Team: We are students and full-time researches from IBM Research, Portland State University, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Please see the project section for details.
Downloads: please see the downloads section.
We are open for your feedback. Please ask us if you have any questions on how to use the RoarVM, or how to use Sly.
The VM-dev mailinglist is one way to reach us. Other options are to follow us on Twitter @roarvm or watch and fork us on GitHub.
Another option is to use Disqus to leave us your feedback below.