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JPT: A Java Parallelization Tool

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 1999)

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PVM is a succesfull programming environment for distributed computing in the languages C and Fortran. Recently several implementations of PVM for Java have been added, making PVM programming accessible to the Java community.

With PVM for Java however, the user still needs to partition the problem, calculate the data partitioning and program the message passing and synchronization. In this paper, JPT is introduced, a parallelization tool which generates PVM code from a serial Java program. JPT automatically detects parallel loops and generates master and slave PVM programs.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering Parallel Information Systems, University of Ghent, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000, Gent, Belgium

    Kristof Beyls, Erik D’Hollander & Yijun Yu

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  1. OakRidge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, 107, Ayres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1301, USA

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  2. Computer Science Department Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Group, Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Beyls, K., D’Hollander, E., Yu, Y. (1999). JPT: A Java Parallelization Tool. In: Dongarra, J., Luque, E., Margalef, T. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1697. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48158-3_22

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