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FORGE is an interactive program analysis package built on top of a database representation of an application. FORGE was the first commercial package that addressed the issue of performing interprocedural analysis for Program Consistency, Shared and Distributed Parallelization, and Vectorization. FORGE was developed by a team of computer scientists employed by Pacific Sierra Research and later Applied Parallel Research.
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When FORGE was marketed in 1995, whole program parallelization was not quick, easy, or convenient. Vectorization was a mature user and compiler art. Many users could write vectorizeable loops that a compiler could translate to efficient vector instructions. Distributed and shared memory multiprocessors could be treated as vector processors and parallelized in the same manner. This is frequently very inefficient. Parallelization introduces much...
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Levesque, J.M., Wagenbreth, G. (2011). FORGE. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_55
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