Title :
Reordering the statements with dependence cycles to improve the performance of parallel loops
Author :
Chu, Chih-Ping ; Carver, Doris L.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Abstract :
In this paper, we study the exploitation of statement-level parallelism in dependence cycles of Do-loops executed in a random (general) synchronization mode, with emphasis on the effect of statement ordering on parallelism level. For a dependence cycle of a single parallel loop, the parallelism exposed, in general, varies with the alignment of statements. Statement reordering (without modifying the semantics) relies on the compile-time prediction of execution-time of the loop. An improved timing formula and the derived algorithm of statement reordering in single Do loop with dependence cycles to improve the performance of parallel loops are proposed and discussed
Keywords :
parallel programming; parallelising compilers; performance evaluation; synchronisation; Do-loops; compile-time prediction; dependence cycles; parallel loops performance; parallelism level; statement ordering; statement-level parallelism; statements reordering; synchronization mode; timing formula; Computer science; Parallel processing; State estimation; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8227-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICPADS.1997.652568