{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/flash-1-0-a-software-framework-for-rapid","title":"FLASH 1.0: A Software Framework for Rapid Parallel Deployment and Enhancing Host Code Portability in Heterogeneous Computing","arxiv_id":"2106.13645","date":"2021-06-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael Riera","Masudul Hassan Quraishi","Erfan Bank Tavakoli","Fengbo Ren"],"abstract":"This paper presents FLASH 1.0, a C++-based software framework for rapid parallel deployment and enhancing host code portability in heterogeneous computing. FLASH takes a novel approach in describing kernels and dynamically dispatching them in a hardware-agnostic manner. FLASH features truly hardware-agnostic frontend interfaces, which unify the compile-time control flow and enforce a portability-optimized code organization that imposes a demarcation between computational (performance-critical) and functional (non-performance-critical) codes as well as the separation of hardware-specific and hardware-agnostic codes in the host application. We use static code analysis to measure the hardware independence ratio of twelve popular HPC applications and show that up to 99.72% code portability can be achieved with FLASH. Similarly, we measure and compare the complexity of state-of-the-art portable programming models to show that FLASH can achieve a code reduction of up to 4.0x for two common HPC kernels while maintaining 100% code portability with a normalized framework overhead between 1% - 13% of the total kernel runtime. The codes are available at https://github.com/PSCLab-ASU/FLASH.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13645v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13645v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"flash-1-0-a-software-framework-for-rapid","repo_url":"https://github.com/PSCLab-ASU/FLASH","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}