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We have shown that it is possible mechanically to produce a highly efficient implementation tailored for execution on the AMT DAP 510 of a high-level functional specification. The functional specification is not biased in ways that would permit its efficient execution on a particular machine architecture, but is expressed in a way that gives a clear statement of the algorithm. Indeed, the functional specification may be used as the starting point for producing implementations tailored for execution on other machines (and will be used in this way in future investigations).
The transformations used to produce the implementation discussed in this paper are not particular to this problem and are currently being applied in the transformation of functional specification for other algorithms where an implementation tailored for the DAP processor is required. However, there is still development work to be undertaken for these derivations. This includes tailoring the generated code for the compiler (for example, producing sectioned array operations) and tailoring for particular data sets (for example, sparse matrices or banded matrices).
This work was supported by the Applied mathematical sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
This work is supported by a research studentship from Department of Education, Northern Ireland.
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Boyle, J.M., Clint, M., Fitzpatrick, S., Harmer, T.J. (1992). The construction of numerical mathematical software for the AMT DAP by program transformation. In: Bougé, L., Cosnard, M., Robert, Y., Trystram, D. (eds) Parallel Processing: CONPAR 92—VAPP V. VAPP CONPAR 1992 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55895-0_481
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