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Automatic Parallelization


Jakob Østergaard   IMM -- DTU
c958612   Lyngby



9th of August 1999

Abstract:

With the availability of cheap networking hardware and fast commodity computer systems, clusters have become an extremely cost-effective way of gaining massive processing power. The alternative, to buy single specialized high-performance computers is becoming less interesting all the time, because of their much higher prices for equivalent performance.
However, there are still reasons for not using clusters. The good reason is, that some problems cannot be parallelized well. The other reason is, that it takes time and effort to successfully parallelize old sequential programs into parallel programs that will run efficiently on the cluster.
This work addresses the latter reason. This is a description of an attempt made, to fully automate the process of not only parallelizing, but also distributing or scheduling an otherwise serial program.

The work described herein was conducted for the Department of Mathematical Modelling, at the Technical University of Denmark. Supervisors on the project were Per Christian Hansen and Jens Clausen.
The original idea for the TONS computing environment that some of the ideas in this work builds upon, came from Kenneth Geisshirt.




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