Utilizing multidimensional loop parallelism on large scale parallel processor systems

摘要

Program parallelism and processor allocation issues for parallel processor systems are discussed. Optimal processor assignment algorithms are presented for simple and complex nested parallel loops. These processor assignment schemes can be used by the compiler to perform static processor allocation to multiply nested parallel loops. Speedup measurements for EISPACK and IEEE DSP subroutines that result from the optimal assignment of processors to parallel loops are also presented. These measurements indicate that optimal processor assignments result in almost linear speedups on parallel processor machines with a few tens of processes and significantly high speedups for machines with hundreds or thousands of processors.