Automatic Algorithm Recognition and Replacement
Subtitle: A New Approach to Program Optimization
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: June 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780262133685
Subjects: Algorithms & procedures; Software engineering; Algorithms (Computer Programming); Parallel Processing; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Computer Books: Operating Systems; Computer Science; Programming - General; Computers / Computer Science; Data Processing - Parallel Processing; Computer algorithms; Computer programming
First sentence: Optimizing compilers have a fundamental problem.
Description: "Parallel computation will become the norm in the coming decades. Unfortunately, advances in parallel hardware have far outpaced parallel applications of software. There are currently two approaches to applying parallelism to applications. One is to write completely new applications in new languages. But abandoning applications that work is unacceptable to most nonacademic users of high-performance computers. The other approach is to convert existing applications to a parallel form.

This can be done manually or automatically. Even partial success in doing the job automatically has obvious economic advantages." "This book describes a fundamentally new theoretical framework for finding poor algorithms in an application program and replacing them with ones that parallelize the code."--BOOK JACKET.