Enabling programmer-controlled combined memory consistency for parallel code optimization

Resource Information

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Label

Enabling programmer-controlled combined memory consistency for parallel code optimization

Statement of responsibility

Dixie M. Hisley

Creator

• Hisley, Dixie M

Contributor

• U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Subject

• Coding
• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer programming
• Consistency
• Distributed shared memory
• Memory devices
• Parallel processing
• Parallel programs (Computer programs)
• Software engineering
• Algorithms

Language

eng

Summary

In this report, a novel software technique is presented that provides the capability to guarantee a different memory consistency model for different variables within the same shared memory parallel program. Programmers need only focus on their parallel algorithm and which variables can tolerate the use of old values, while the technique automatically guarantees sequential consistency for all remaining variables and identifies where unnecessary synchronization overhead can be avoided. Program slicing is exploited to address the interactions between variables that can tolerate old values and those that require the most recent value to be read

Member of

• ARL-TR, 3006

Cataloging source

DTICE

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Period covered

Oct, 2002-Mar. 2003.

Series statement

ARL-TR

Series volume

3006

Type of report

Final report.