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The communication system of some 3rd generation private-memory machines provides long-lived connections (which reserve communication resources like buffers between nodes) as well as direct access by the computation unit(s) of the node to the communication system. These features allow a compiler to find innovative solutions when compiling data-parallel programs for a private-memory machine. In this paper, we discuss some optimizations that can be included in a compiler for the iWarp system, an example private-memory parallel system with a novel communication architecture.
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Hinrichs, S., Gross, T. (1993). Utilizing new communication features in compilation for private-memory machines. In: Banerjee, U., Gelernter, D., Nicolau, A., Padua, D. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57502-2_70
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