On effective execution of nonuniform DOACROSS loops

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 463-476

  Chen, Ding Kai ^a,b   Yew, Pen Chung ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compiler transformation; Data dependence; Loop parallelization; Parallelism; Scheduling; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SCHEDULING; SYNCHRONIZATION; VECTORS;

COMPILER TRANSFORMATION; DATA DEPENDENCE; DEPENDENCE UNIFORMIZATION; DOACROSS LOOPS; LOOP PARALLELIZATION; STATIC STRIP SCHEDULING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030149070     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.503771     Document Type: Article

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