Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.unix.aix
From: Bob Syristatides <syris@tc.cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: auto parallizer for IBM SP/2?
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: 19 Jun 1995 13:04:47 GMT
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Jianlin Chang <chang@mjs1.phy.queensu.ca> wrote:
>I should mention that I am sware of FORGE. But what FORGE can do
>is still pretty limited. From what I read from their manual, it doesn't
>seem that it translate FORTRAN code into MPL call, rather it translate
>into calls using FORGE library. This will not be
>good if you want to hand tune it later. Am I right?

Well, the nice thing about FORGE is that it is not really all that automatic.
It goes through each piece of parallelizable code and you have many options
about how to go about parallelizing each piece.  With good knowledge of the
code at hand, pretty impressive results can be achieved, hand tuning it through
FORGE.


