GLT: A Unified API for Lightweight Thread Libraries

In recent years, several lightweight thread (LWT) libraries have emerged to tackle exascale challenges. These offer programming models (PMs) based on user-level threads and incorporate their own lightweight mechanisms. However, each library proposes its own PM, exposing different semantics and hindering portability. To address this drawback, we have designed Generic Lightweight Thread (GLT), an application programming interface that frames the functionality of the most popular LWT libraries for high-performance computing under a single PM. We implement GLT on top of Argobots, MassiveThreads, and Qthreads. We provide GLT as a dynamic library, as well as in the form of a static version based on macro preprocessing resolution to reduce overhead. This paper discusses the GLT PM and demonstrates its minimal performance impact.Researchers from the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló were supported by project TIN2014-53495-R of the MINECO, the Generalitat Valenciana fellowship programme Vali+d 2015, and FEDER. Antonio J. Peña is cofinancied by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under Juan de la Cierva fellowship number IJCI-2015-23266. This work was partially supported by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21), under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Impact of potassium and sodium fertilization on the leaf transcriptome of Eucalyptus grandis submitted to water deficiency. S3.P54

Eucalyptus trees are well adapted to various soils and climate environment. However its growth varies strongly according to these factors [1]. Tropical cultivated surfaces are mainly located in water deficient regions during dry season, and there soils are often deficient in potassium (K) [2], an essential nutrient [3] improving plant growth [4] and drought resistance [5]. Sodium (Na) could partially replace it [4, 6]. However, the respective role of K and Na on plant water regulation has still to be established [7]. Here, we present an transcriptomic analysis on Eucalyptus grandis leaves, submitted to normal or reduced rainfalls, and K or Na fertilization. We develop a strategy to analyze gene expression with a multifactor model (fertilization, rainfall regime and interaction of both factors). Then we validate our procedure by analyzing specifically the genes expressed in response to the reduced rainfall regime. Biological processes and genes linked to water deficiency were successfully identified. (Résumé d'auteur

Estrutura Diamétrica e Arranjo Espacial das Espécies Mais Abundantes de um Fragmento de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual em Botucatu, SP

RESUMOFoi feito um estudo sobre a estrutura diamétrica e o arranjo espacial das espécies mais abundantes que ocorrem em um dos cinco fragmentos florestais da Fazenda Experimental Edgardia (1.200 ha), município de Botucatu, SP. A área do remanescente é de 56 ha. Inventariaram-se 185 unidades amostrais contíguas de 100 m2, que compuseram uma amostra de 1,85 ha. Levantou-se a composição florística e estrutura horizontal da vegetação do centro do remanescente. Dentre as dez espécies de maior valor de importância, sete apresentaram abundância que permitiu realizar os estudos sobre distribuição diamétrica e distribuição espacial. O somatório dos índices de valores de importância (IVI) obtidos para as espécies mais abundantes (185,98) mostrou que elas têm uma grande participação na estrutura da vegetação que está se regenerando. Após ajuste das distribuições diamétricas das sete espécies, seis apresentaram um padrão de distribuição na forma de J invertido, refletindo regeneração contínua dos indivíduos dessas espécies. Quatro dessas distribuições foram distinguidas como tipo I (ou distribuição balanceada). As características relacionadas com as distribuições de diâmetros ajustadas auxiliaram na indicação de uma atenuação da perturbação antropogênica. Verificou-se relação direta entre o arranjo espacial e a síndrome de dispersão para Trichilia clausseni e Metrodorea nigra e, dependendo das escalas analisadas, para T. catigua e T. casaretti