An Efficient Scalable Runtime System for S-Net Dataflow Component Coordination

S-Net is a declarative component coordination language aimed at radically facilitating software engineering for modern parallel compute systems by near-complete separation of concerns between application (component) engineering and concurrency orchestration. S-Net builds on the concept of stream processing to structure networks of communicating asynchronous components implemented in a conventional (sequential) language. In this paper we present the design, implementation and evaluation of a new and innovative runtime system for S-Net streaming networks. The Front runtime system outperforms the existing implementations of S-Net by orders of magnitude for stress-test benchmarks, signicantly reduces runtimes of fully- edged parallel applications with compute-intensive components and achieves good scalability on our 48-core test system.