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The rapid development of parallel architectures calls for solving the problem of programs portability (between parallel machines as well as between serial and parallel machines). This need is further emphasized due to the difficulty in the efficient use of current parallel languages and the existence of a large body of code written for serial machines.
The Octi parallelizer compiles a serial input program, written in C, into a number of subprograms to be run in parallel on distributed memory MIMD machines. The system provides a language extension for specifying data distribution among the processors. The paper also describes the parallelization algorithm, some of the new optimization techniques, and a method for automatic data distribution.
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Lempel, O., Pinter, S., Turiel, E. (1993). Parallelizing a C Dialect for distributed memory MIMD machines. In: Banerjee, U., Gelernter, D., Nicolau, A., Padua, D. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57502-2_59
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