AUTOMATIC PARALLELIZATION

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60845-841-7
Verlag: MORGAN & CLAYPOOL

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture

Compiling for parallelism is a longstanding topic of compiler research. This book describes the fundamental principles of compiling ""regular"" numerical programs for parallelism. We begin with an explanation of analyses that allow a compiler to understand the interaction of data reads and writes in different statements and loop iterations during program execution. These analyses include dependence analysis, use-def analysis and pointer analysis. Next, we describe how the results of these analyses are used to enable transformations that make loops more amenable to parallelization, and discuss transformations that expose parallelism to target shared memory multicore and vector processors. We then discuss some problems that arise when parallelizing programs for execution on distributed memory machines. Finally, we conclude with an overview of solving Diophantine equations and suggestions for further readings in the topics of this book to enable the interested reader to delve deeper into the field.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction and overview
- Dependence analysis, dependence graphs and alias analysis
- Program parallelization
- Transformations to modify and eliminate dependences
- Transformation of iterative and recursive constructs
- Compiling for distributed memory machines
- Solving Diophantine equations
- A guide to further reading