PaRSEC is a generic framework for architecture aware scheduling and management of micro-tasks on distributed many-core heterogeneous architectures.

PaRSEC is a generic framework for architecture aware scheduling and management of micro-tasks on distributed many-core heterogeneous architectures. Applications are expressed as a Direct Acyclic Graph of tasks with labeled edges designating data dependencies. PaRSEC assigns computation threads to the cores, overlaps communications and computations between nodes as well as between host and accelerators (like GPUs). It achieves these features by using a dynamic, fully-distributed scheduler based on architectural features such as NUMA nodes and GPU awareness, as well as algorithmic features such as data reuse.