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From: metzger@convex.com (Robert Metzger)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Compilers for parallel computing
Keywords: parallel, books, vector
Message-ID: <91-05-096@comp.compilers>
Date: 23 May 91 14:57:02 GMT
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In article <91-05-095@comp.compilers> Julia Dain <julia@cs.warwick.ac.uk> writes:
>Help please - can anyone recommend a good textbook on compilers for parallel
>computing.
>
>Gelernter and Nicolau: Languages and compilers for parallel computing
>(Pitman)
>
>Polychronopoulos: Parallel programming and compilers (Kluwer Academic)
>
>Wolfe: Optimizing supercompilers for supercomputers (Pitman)
>
>Zima and Chapman: Supercompilers for parallel and vector computers (Addison
>Wesley)

I recommend Zima/Chapman and Wolfe to new engineers in our department
(compiler development at CONVEX Computer Corp.) who wish to learn more about
vectorization and parallelization.  I would not recommend the other two books
for this purpose, though they contain much useful material.

Wolfe and Polychronopoulos are updated versions of doctoral dissertations.
Gelernter and Nicolau is a collection of papers, essentially a conference
proceedings.

Zima/Chapman contents (376 pages)

Supercomputers and Supercompilers
Supercomputer Architecture
Scalar Analysis
Data Dependence
Standard Transformations
Vectorization
Parallelization
Supercompilers and their Environments
Appendix A- Tarjan's Algorithm
Appendix B- The Banerjee Test
Appendix C- Mathematical Notation
References
Index

Wolfe contents (165 pages)

Supercompilers
Data Dependence
Vectorization
Concurrentization
Loop Fusion and Loop Scalarization
Loop Interchanging
Reductions and Recurrenes
Wavefronts via Loop Skewing
Storage Management
Vectorizing While Loops
Structure of a Supercompiler
References
(no index!)

Polychronopoulos contents (240 pages)

Parallel Architectures and Compilers
Program Restructuring for Parallel Execution
A Comprehensive Environment for Automatic Packaging and Scheduling
	of Parallelism
Static and Dynamic Loop Scheduling
Run-time Overhead
Static Program Partitioning
Static Task Scheduling
Speedup Bounds for Parallel Programs
References
Index

Gelernter, Nicolua, Padua contents (553 pages)

A total of 26 papers.  My personal selection of interesting papers

A Theory of Loop Permutations - Banerjee
Experiences Using Control Dependence in PTRAN - Cytron, Ferrante, Sarkar
Static Analysis and Runtime Support for Parallel Execution in C -
	Gannon, Guarna, Lee
Some Results on Exact Data Dependence Analysis - Li, Yew
The Structure of Parafrase-2- Polychronopoulos et al
Loop Rotation - Wolfe
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