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Runtime and Compiler Support for Irregular Computations

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There have been major efforts in developing programming language and compiler support for distributed memory parallel machines. On these machines, large data arrays are typically partitioned among the local memories of individual processors. Languages supporting such distributed arrays include Fortran D [11, 19], Vienna Fortran [6, 32], and High Performance Fortran (HPF) [21]. Many compilers for these HPF-like languages produce Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) code, combining sequential code for operating on each processor’s data with calls to message-passing or runtime communication primitives for sharing data with other processors.

An extended version of this paper has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Computers.

This research was supported by ARPA under contract No. NAG-1-1485 and NSF under contract Nos. ASC 9213821 and ASC-9624987. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

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  2. Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, 202, Taiwan

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  3. Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742

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Das, R., Hwang, YS., Saltz, J., Sussman, A. (2001). Runtime and Compiler Support for Irregular Computations. In: Pande, S., Agrawal, D.P. (eds) Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1808. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45403-9_21

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