An experimental APL compiler for a distributed memory parallel machine

Author

Ching, Wai-Mee ; Katz, Alex

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Technol., IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

14-18 Nov 1994

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

68

Abstract

An experimental APL compiler has been developed for the IBM SP1 distributed memory parallel machine. It accepts classical APL programs, without additional directives, and generates parallelized C code for execution on the SP1 machine. The compiler exploits data parallelism in APL programs based on parallel high-level primitives. Program variables are either replicated or partitioned. We also present performance data for five moderate-size programs running on the SP1

Keywords

APL; IBM computers; distributed memory systems; parallel machines; parallel programming; program compilers; software performance evaluation; APL compiler; IBM SP1 distributed memory parallel machine; data parallelism; parallel high-level primitives; parallelized C code generation; partitioned program variables; performance data; replicated program variables; Concurrent computing; Costs; Data analysis; Distributed computing; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Program processors; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '94., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1994.344266

Filename

344266