| Automatic Parallelization: An Overview of Fundamental Compiler Techniques Contributor(s): Midkiff, Samuel P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608458415 ISBN-13: 9781608458417 Publisher: Morgan & Claypool OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Systems Architecture - Distributed Systems & Computing - Technology & Engineering - Computers | Computer Engineering |
| Dewey: 004.35 |
| Series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.67 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Table of Contents: 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 |