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From: hoefling@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Multi-Processor Serializability
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Date: 1 Feb 89 16:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!hoefling    Feb  1 10:06:00 1989


Manufacturers of multi-processors provide program-restructurers
(sometimes called "parallelizers" or "vectorizers").  All of the
ones I know about accept a sequential version of the program and
produce a new version of the program containing vector statements
(if you have vector-processing hardware) and parallel constructs.

There are many such restructurers in use in universities and I know
of two commercial restructurers (KAP and VAST).  Typically, these
restructurers are used with Fortran, but some are beginning to be
used for C and Lisp.

Hope this answers your question.

Jay Hoeflinger
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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