Compiling Dynamic Mappings with Array Copies

Array remappings are useful to many applications on distributed memory parallel machines. They are available in High Performance Fortran, a Fortran-based data-parallel language. This paper describes techniques to handle dynamic mappings through simple array copies: array remappings are translated into copies between statically mapped distinct versions of the array. It discusses the language restrictions required to do so. The remapping graph which captures all remapping and liveness information is presented, as well as additional data- ow optimizations that can be performed on this graph, so as to avoid useless remappings at run time. Such useless remappings appear for arrays that are not used after a remapping. Live array copies are also kept to avoid other ow-dependent useless remappings. Finally the code generation and runtime required by our scheme are discussed. These techniques are implemented in our prototype HPF compiler.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: PPOPP
• Authors: Fabien Coelho
• Keywords: Array Copies, Array Remappings, Distributed And Parallel Computing, PPOPP 1997, Useless Remappings