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From: bron@bronze.SGI.COM (Bron Campbell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Parallelizing Techniques
Summary: Silicon Graphics, symmetric multi-processor
Keywords: parallelizing, compiler, vectorizing
Message-ID: <30148@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 21:04:22 GMT
References: <17287@cisunx.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <17287@cisunx.UUCP>, dpl@cisunx.UUCP (David P. Lithgow) writes:
> To all compiler gurus:
> 
> 	I am looking for references to Cray/VAX/FPS (and any other system)
> and their FORTRAN (or other, perhaps Ada) compilers' ability to detect
> opportunities for parallelism or vectorization inside and outside the compiler.

Silicon Graphics is now building a symmetric multi-processor system.  We
offer a Fortran compiler option that has automatic parallelism detection.
The existing product detects parallelism at the DO loop level, and will
run different iterations of the loop on different processors.  We have
gotten very good results for compute intensive loops.

I could speak endlessly on this topic, but I'd start to sound like a
commercial.  If you have specific questions, feel free to email to me.

--
Bron Campbell Nelson
bron@sgi.com  or possibly  ..!ames!sgi!bron
These statements are my own, not those of Silicon Graphics.