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Author:   Radu C. Calinescu
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   Edition. ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781852332846

ISBN 10:   1852332840
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   14 June 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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INTRODUCTION: Motivation. Parallelisation approach proposed in the book. Organisation of the book.- THE BULK-SYNCHRONOUS PARALLEL MODEL: Introduction. Bulk-synchronous parallel computers. The BSP programming model. The BSP cost model. Assessing the efficiency of BSP code. The development of BSP applications. BSP pseudocode.- DATA DEPENDENCE ANALYSIS AND CODE TRANSFORMATION: Introduction. Data dependence. Code transformation techniques.- COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS IN LOOP NEST SCHEDULING: Introduction. Related work. Communication overheads due to input data. Inter-tile communication overheads. Summary.- TEMPLATE-MATCHING PARALLELISATION: Introduction. Related work. Communication-free scheduling. Wavefront block scheduling. Iterative scheduling. Reduction scheduling. Recurrence scheduling. Scheduling broadcast loop nests. Summary.- GENERIC LOOP NEST PARALLELISATION: Introduction. Related work. Data dependence analysis. Potential parallelism identification. Data and computation partitioning. Communication and synchronisation generation. Performance analysis. Summary.- A STRATEGY AND A TOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE-INDEPENDENT LOOP PARALLELISATION: Introduction. Related work. A two-phase strategy for loop nest parallelisation. BSPscheduler: an architecture-independent loop paralleliser. Summary.- THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ARCHITECTURE-INDEPENDENT LOOP PARALLELISATION: Introduction. Matrix-vector and matrix-matrix multiplication. LU decomposition. Algebraic path problem. Finite difference iteration on a Cartesian grid. Merging. Summary.- CONCLUSIONS: Summary of contributions and concluding remarks. Future work directions.- A: THEOREM PROOFS.- B: SYNTAX OF THE BSPSCHEDULER INPUT LANGUAGE.- C: SYNTAX OF THE BSPSCHEDULER OUTPUT LANGUAGE.- D: AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED CODE FOR EXAMPLE 7.5.- Bibliography.- Index.

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