Parallel Task Execution in a Decentralized System

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Gonzalez;C. V. Ramamoorthy

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas Instruments, Inc.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1972

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Abstract

The overhead involved in the real-time multiprocessor execution of parallel-processable segments of a sequential program is investigated. The execution follows a preprocessing phase in which the source program is analyzed and the parallel-processable segments are recognized. A number of representations of a parallel-processable program are possible. A table representation is used, and a technique is developed to efficiently interpret this table in a system in which a number of identical processors share a common memory.