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UPC

The UPC Language

 Unified Parallel C (UPC) is an extension of the C programming language designed for high performance computing on large-scale parallel machines.The language provides a uniform programming model for both shared and distributed memory hardware. The programmer is presented with a single shared, partitioned address space, where variables may be directly read and written by any processor, but each variable is physically associated with a single processor. UPC uses a Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) model of computation in which the amount of parallelism is fixed at program startup time, typically with a single thread of execution per processor.

In order to express parallelism, UPC extends ISO C 99 with the following constructs:


The UPC language evolved from experiences with three other earlier languages that proposed parallel extensions to ISO C 99: AC , Split-C, and Parallel C Preprocessor (PCP). UPC is not a superset of these three languages, but rather an attempt to distill the best characteristics of each. UPC combines the programmability advantages of the shared memory programming paradigm and the control over data layout and performance of the message passing programming paradigm.


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Our work in the LBNL Pagoda Group

Berkeley UPC downloads since 01/May/2005
Berkeley UPC Runtime Source 280000
Berkeley UPC Translator Source 49351
Berkeley UPC Cygwin Binary 3386
Berkeley UPC MacOS Binary 10393
Combined Total 343130

The Berkeley UPC compiler suite is currently maintained primarily by the Pagoda Project in the CLaSS Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The goal of the Berkeley UPC team is to develop a portable, high performance implementation of UPC for large-scale multiprocessors, PC clusters, and clusters of shared memory multiprocessors.  We are developing an open-source UPC compiler suite whose goals are portability and high-performance.

The major components of our project are:

Some of the research findings from these areas of work can be found on our publications page.


UPC Compiler Infrastructure

There are multiple compiler infrastructures available for use with the Berkeley UPC runtime and compiler driver: two source-to-source translators (based on LLVM and Open64) and two compilers (based on LLVM and GCC). For details please see the download page.

All compilers have been tested using the same procedure and our recommendations in terms of robustness and performance are below.

  1. Clang UPC2C source-to-source (CUPC2C) translator
    We consider this to be the most robust option.
    Though results will vary with your choice of a backend C compiler, this option is likely to result in best performance.
    Developed by INTREPID Technology Inc and Tactical Computing Laboratories.
  2. Clang UPC source-to-binary (CUPC) compiler
    We consider this to be a less-portable alternative to CUPC2C.
    The performance is determined by the code generation of LLVM 3 (no option to use other backend compilers).
    Developed by INTREPID Technology Inc.
  3. Open64-based source-to-source UPC-to-C (BUPC) translator
    This is the default compiler, hosted as a netcompile service by the Pagoda Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
    Performance is determined by the backend C compiler.
    Developed by the CLaSS group at LBNL.
  4. GNU UPC source-to-binary (GUPC) compiler
    We consider this option to be generally robust.
    The performance is determined by the code generation of GCC 5.2 (no option to use other backend compilers).
    Developed by INTREPID Technology Inc.

All of the compiler options above use the Berkeley UPC runtime and compiler driver, which is available on the download page.


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Principal Investigator:
Katherine Yelick

General contact info

Berkeley UPC is developed and maintained by the Pagoda Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
and is funded by the DOE Office of Science and the Department of Defense.
Prior work has included contributions from UC Berkeley students and faculty, under various funding agencies.

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