Title :
On porting sequential programs to parallel machines
Author :
Raghavendra, C.S. ; Bhansali, S.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of EECS, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA
Abstract :
We address a significant problem in parallel processing research, namely, how to port existing sequential programs to run efficiently on parallel machines (the “dusty deck” problem). Conventional domain-independent techniques are inadequate for solving this problem because they miss significant opportunities of parallelism. We present experimental evidence to support our claim, analyze why current techniques are inadequate, and propose a knowledge-based reverse engineering approach for attacking this problem
Keywords :
knowledge engineering; parallel machines; parallel programming; reverse engineering; software portability; software tools; domain-independent techniques; dusty deck problem; knowledge-based reverse engineering; parallel machines; parallel processing research; sequential program porting; software tools; Hardware; Intelligent vehicles; Parallel machines; Parallel processing; Performance analysis; Programming environments; Reverse engineering; Scientific computing; Software tools; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1994. COMPSAC 94. Proceedings., Eighteenth Annual International
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6705-2
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1994.342786
