From Distributed Sequential Computing to Distributed Parallel Computing

One approach to distributed parallel programming is to utilize self-migrating threads. Computations can be distributed first, and parallelized second. The first step produces a distributed sequential thread, which can be incrementally parallelized by the second step. This paper prescribes three transformations that turn distributed sequential programs into distributed parallel programs. Real-life examples and performance data are presented, and the advantages of our approach are discussed.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICPPW
• Authors: Lei Pan, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt, Ming Kin Lai
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Distributed Sequential Thread, ICPPW 2003, Parallel Programming, first Step