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V5 N2 Paper 6
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Annals of the MS in Computer Science and Information Systems at
UNC Wilmington
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Fall 2011
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Extending Shared-Memory Parallelism to a Distributed-Memory Parallelizing Compiler
Lyndon Kyle Holt
Committee
Abstract
A source-to-source parallelizing compiler which generates parallel code for distributed-memory systems is modified to support statements for expressing shared-memory parallelism. The multi-core push is changing commodity clusters and high-end computing systems to include denser nodes containing more processors with shared-memory. This has drawn increased interest in hybrid parallel programming of these systems. The result of this compiler modification allows valid hybrid parallel programs to be produced from high-level statements guiding two forms of parallelism from the sequential source. Further implications and a detailed description of the implementation of this optimization are discussed. The modified compiler was validated by compiling two sequential sources containing high-level distributed-memory and shared-memory statements which perform matrix multiplication and Sobel edge detection. Performance timings are collected on the generated hybrid parallel source and distributed-memory only parallel source.
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Holt, L., Ferner, C, Kline, D., Adhar, G. (2011) Extending Shared-Memory Parallelism to a Distributed-Memory Parallelizing Compiler . Annals of the Master of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems at UNC Wilmington, 5(2) paper 6. http://csbapp.uncw.edu/data/mscsis/full.aspx.
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V5 N2 Paper 6
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Annals of the MS in Computer Science and Information Systems at
UNC Wilmington
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Fall 2011
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