Phylanx Report: August 2018

The twelfth month of work focused on work in the following areas:

  • Phylanx Front-end refactoring
  • HPXMP Improvements
    • HPXMPT Call backs

Organizational Activities and Results

Development Activities and Results

  • Algorithms Highlighted: Logistic Regression, ALS, K-Means
  • APEX
    • HPX Integration bugs fixed:
      • Configuration error due to multiple definitions
      • Minor memory leaks in APEX
      • Merged patches for HPX developers reported by GCC 8
      • Fixed race conditions, re-entry errors at APEX shutdown
      • Debugging APEX/TAU integration
      • Fixed region ordering in OTF2 output
      • Fixed APEX task dependency crash during distributed executions
    • Began work on implementing nightly regression testing for Phylanx project.
      • Involves testing the APEX/TAU integration so that TAU profiles can be generated and loaded into the TAUdb database for HTML report generation.
      • Lead to the discovery of APEX/TAU bugs that were subsequently patched.
    • Resolving Phylanx continuous integration (buildbot) test failures on UO test servers
  • Traveler
    • Traveler Tree code view now bi-directionally links so that lines of code will highlight nodes in the tree and vice versa
    • New Docker version of Traveler Tree
    • Minor UI fixes
  • Tilling
    • Theory
      • Reduced a well known problem on signed graphs to a restricted version of a tiling problem
        • Provided strong evidence of its hardness of approximation
    • System
      • Working to convert AST to CSP
    • New Questions:
      • How should loops be handled when tiling
      • When should we choose different algorithms for matrix operations
      • How can we determine memory budget for storing duplicated matrices with different tilings
  • Primitives & Algorithms
    • Added support for Dictionaries in Phylanx
    • Added non-zero and where primitives
    • Functionality of the set primitive migrated to store
      • The set primitive has been deprecated
    • Added tests for ALS algorithm
    • Added seven more callbacks to HPXMPT
  • Python
    • Refactored Phylanx frontend
      • Cleaned up code
      • Fixed several bugs
    • Improved debugging by passing the file name to the compiler
    • Added a “phyhelp” function which returns a doc string

 

Repository Activity August 1st – August 31th:

Code statistics

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Language                     files          blank        comment           code
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C++                            289          11825           3920          58968
C/C++ Header                   198           3637           2335          15404
CMake                           91            796            665           3213
Python                          66           1107            978           2811
YAML                             2             20             62            320
Markdown                         2             15              0             48
Dockerfile                       2              4             27             47
INI                              1              0              0              8
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SUM:                           651          17404           7987          80819
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Impact on Other Projects

  • Blaze Tickets:
    • Blaze 3.4 won’t compile, Issue #195
  • HPX Pull Requests:
    • Circle CI setting changes for hpxMP #3431
    • Don’t track task dependencies for distributed runs #3432
    • Atomic future state #3398
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