Runtime Support and Compilation Methods for User-Specified Irregular Data Distributions

  • Authors:
  • Ravi Ponnusamy;Joel Saltz;Alok Choudhary;Yuan-Shin Hwang;Geoffrey Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

This paper describes two new ideas by which a High Performance Fortran compiler can deal with irregular computations effectively. The first mechanism invokes a user specified mapping procedure via a set of proposed compiler directives. The directives allow use of program arrays to describe graph connectivity, spatial location of array elements, and computational load. The second mechanism is a conservative method for compiling irregular loops in which dependence arises only due to reduction operations. This mechanism in many cases enables a compiler to recognize that it is possible to reuse previously computed information from inspectors (e.g., communication schedules, loop iteration partitions, and information that associates off-processor data copies with on-processor buffer locations). This paper also presents performance results for these mechanisms from a Fortran 90D compiler implementation.