Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.compilers,comp.parallel
From: jeroen@leonardo.et.tudelft.nl (Jeroen Hordijk)
Subject: automatic exploitation of task parallelism from sequential languages
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 16:36:14 GMT
Message-ID: <48qapu$mfg@elektron.et.tudelft.nl>


Hi,

I'm a PhD student and going to research automatic exploitation of
functional parallelism (task parallelism). I'm trying to find
papers/books about this research interest. I'm especially interested
in automatic restructure sequential C programs for execution on parallel
architectures (starting with shared memory multiprocessors, maybe
distibuted memory processors later).

I'm aware of the papers of the following research groups:

* University of Illinois, Parafrase-2 group (HTG and autoscheduling)
* The group of Fran Allen at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
  PTRAN  (is this project still going on ?)
* University of Toronto, pTask.

Of course, there is much work done on automatic extraction of
task parallelism from functional languages. Has anyone good
starters ?

Is it true that most researchers in parallel computing, consider
automatic exploitation of parallelism from sequential programs, like
C, too complicated ?


Jeroen.
email: jeroen@leonardo.et.tudelft.nl


