HyperLink   Executing Nested Parallel Loops On Shared-Memory Multiprocessors.
   
Publication Year:
  1992
Authors
  Sadun Anik, Wen-mei Hwu
   
Published:
  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, pp.(III) 241-244, St. Charles, IL, Aug. 1992
   
Abstract:

Cache-coherent, bus-based shared-memory multiprocessors are a cost-effective platform for parallel processing. In scientific parallel applications, most of computation involves processing of large multidimensional data structures which results in a high degree of data parallelism. This parallelism can be exploited in the form of nested parallel loops. Most existing shared memory multiprocessors exploit this multi-level parallelism at only one level. In this paper. we explore efficient algorithms and models for executing nested parallel loops and present a simulation based performance comparison of different technique using real application traces. We show that it is possible to exploit the parallelism in the nested parallel loops with the use of good scheduling and synchronization algorithms.