Design and implementation of a DSL based on Ruby for parallel programming

iAbstract Finding a high productivity and high efficient(HPHP) parallel programming language is a key to achieve popular parallel programming and it has been an active field of research for over 3 decades. To achieve HPHP parallel programming language, we proposed to design a DSL based on Ruby, which is a popular sequential langauge among mainstream developers for its high productivity, and then translate the DSL to X10 language, which is a high perfor-mance parallel language, to perform parallel execution. Our proposed DSL can express concurrent and distributed programming with syntax that is consistent with Ruby. The DSL code is converted to X10 program by our code translator and is executed in parallel with some runtime libraries developed by us. The code translator and runtime libraries that we developed implement most of Ruby’s features and bridge the large gap between the Ruby and X10 language. Therefore, the DSL can keep the productivity of Ruby and achieve high performance. We employ HPC and Ruby benchmarks to evaluate the pro-ductivity and scalability of the DSL. The results show that our DSL has better or equa