Optimistic Parallelism Requires Abstractions.

The problem of writing software for multicore processors is greatly simplified if we could automatically parallelize sequential programs. Although auto-parallelization has been studied for many decades, it has succeeded only in a few application areas such as dense matrix computations. In particular...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 9; pp. 89 - 98
Main Authors:	Kulkarni, Milind, Pingali, Keshav, Walter, Bruce, Ramanarayanan, Ganesh, Bala, Kavita, Chew, L. Paul
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Sep2009
Subjects:	Parallel logic programming Abstract thought Microprocessors Computer logic Software architecture Sequential processing (Computer science) Data structures
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