A linear-time algorithm for optimal barrier placement

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 26-35

  Darte, Alain ^a   Schreiber, Robert ^b  

^a UNIV LYON   (France)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier synchronization; Circular arc graph; Nested circular interval graph; Nested loops; SPMD code

Indexed keywords

LINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BARRIER SYNCHRONIZATION; NESTED LOOPS; SPMD CODE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 31844455524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1065944.1065949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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