Integrating user knowledge with information from parallelisation tools to facilitate the automatic generation of efficient parallel FORTRAN code

Parallel Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-288

  Leggett, P F ^a   Marsh, A T J ^a   Johnson, S P ^a   Cross, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interprocedural dependence analysis; Parallelisation tools; User interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM COMPILERS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATIC PARALLEL CODE GENERATION; COMPUTER AIDED PARALLELIZATION TOOLS (CAPTOOLS); INTERPROCEDURAL DEPENDENCE ANALYSIS; USER INTERACTION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030083957     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8191(95)00003-8     Document Type: Article

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