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Multicore systems provide potential to improve the performance of the applications. However, substantial programming effort is required to exploit the power of the parallelism. This paper presents a single source compiler to map the data-parallel programs onto Cell Broadband Engine. Based on the distributed memory model, the compiler performs automatic data distribution and generates SPMD programs with message-passing primitives for Cell. We evaluate our compiler using a range of computation intensive benchmarks, high performance is achieved on Cell platform. In contrast to OpenMP, our method can fully exploit data locality through managing the shared data using inter-processor communication instead of accessing main memory, which significantly reduces the off-chip memory access overhead.
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Wang, M., Bodin, F., Matz, S. (2010). Automatic Data Distribution for Improving Data Locality on the Cell BE Architecture. In: Gao, G.R., Pollock, L.L., Cavazos, J., Li, X. (eds) Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. LCPC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5898. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_17
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