Title
On the Automatic Parallelization of Sparse and Irregular Fortran Programs
Abstract
Automatic parallelization is usually believed to be less effective at exploiting implicit paralleism in sparse/irregular programs than in their dense/regular counterparts. However, not much is really known because there have been few research reports on this topic. In this work, we have studied the possibility of using an automatic parallelizing compiler to detect the parallelism in sparse/irregular programs. The study with a collection of sparse/irregular programs led us to some common loop patterns. Based on these patterns three new techniques were derived that produced good speedups when manually applied to our benchmark codes. More importantly, these parallelization methode can be implemented in a parallelizing compiler and can be applied automatically.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1007/3-540-49530-4_4
Scientific Programming
Keywords
DocType
Volume
benchmark code,automatic parallelization,parallelizing compiler,automatic parallelizing compiler,implicit paralleism,irregular program,parallelization methode,irregular fortran programs,good speedup,common loop pattern,new technique
Conference
7
Issue
ISBN
Citations 
3-4
3-540-65172-1
50
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.44
18
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuan Lin19910.66
David A. Padua24540590.45