Chao Zhang
ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the problem of extracting coarse-grained parallelism from large sequential code. It builds on BOP, a system for software speculative parallelization. BOP lets a user to mark possibly parallel regions (PPR) in a program and at run-time speculatively executes PPR instances using Unix processes. This short paper presents a new run-time support called continuous speculation, which fully utilizes available parallelism to tolerate differences in PPR task size and processor speed.
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Digital Library
- C. Zhang, C. Ding, K. Kelsey, T. Bai, X. Gu, and X. Feng. A language of suggestions for program parallelization. Technical Report URCS #948, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, 2009.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Continuous speculative program parallelization in software
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