US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Design and Implementation of Automatic Parallel Detection Layer

0004438 Bagherzadeh描述：该奖项旨在表彰加州尔湾市加州大学电气与计算机工程系Nader Bagherzadeh教授和埃及开罗电子研究所计算机与系统系Hesham Eldeeb博士对合作项目的支持。 在需要高计算能力的应用中，一种方法是将许多处理器放在同一台计算机中。利用所有可用的计算能力涉及巨大的编程工作，这就需要编译器和运行时支持。 软件开发人员面临的挑战是如何利用应用程序的并行性，而无需从头重写和重新设计当前的顺序程序和算法。 一种方法是通过优化编译器进行并行性检测，将程序员与并行性隔离开来，称为隐式并行。 这使程序员从控制并发的细节中解放出来，从而专注于应用程序。 两位科学家的工作旨在使计算机程序应用程序的并行化过程完全自动化，将顺序源代码转换为并行源代码。 他们将引入一个自动并行检测层（APDL），它接受一个连续的源代码C程序作为输入，并以并行形式产生一个等效的源案例程序作为输出，然后在分布式内存多计算机机器上执行。范围：这个合作项目带来了Eldeeb博士在高性能计算，并行虚拟机，并行逻辑编程和虚拟现实在加州大学欧文分校的PI实验室工作。 Bagherzadeh博士的研究兴趣是高性能计算，超标量设计，多线程和虚拟现实领域。 他的专长还包括星型连接循环、互连网络和实时计算机处理。 他的理论和计算背景将大大有助于这项研究的成功完成。 他将负责提供专业知识来制定自动层的结构，并将根据其研究实验室中的某些所需应用为项目提供应用案例。 该项目符合INT支持互利合作项目的标准。 该项目的资金由国际方案司和计算机通信研究司提供。

0004438Bagherzadeh Description: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Professor Nader Bagherzadeh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of California, Irvine, California and Dr. Hesham Eldeeb, Computer and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. In applications requiring high computing power, one approach is to put together many processors in the same computer. The utilization of all the available computational power involves a tremendous programming effort, which creates a need for compiler and run-time support. Software developers face the challenge of how to exploit application parallelism without rewriting and redesigning current sequential programs and algorithms from scratch. One approach is to isolate programmers from parallelism by adopting optimizing compilers for parallelism detection, named as implicit parallelism. This frees programmers from the details of controlling concurrency, thus concentrate on the application. The work of the two scientists is aimed at fully automating the parallelization process of computer program applications to transform the sequential source code into parallel source code. They will introduce an Automatic Parallel Detection Layer (APDL) which accepts as input a sequential source code C program and produces as output an equivalent source case program in parallel form which is then executed on a distributed memory multicomputer machine.Scope: This collaborative project brings Dr. Eldeeb's experience in high performance computing, parallel virtual machines, parallel logic programming and virtual reality to work in the PI's laboratory at UC, Irvine. Dr. Bagherzadeh's research interest is in the area of high performance computing, superscalar design, multithreading and virtual reality. His expertise also includes star-connected cycles interconnection networks and real-time computer processing. His theoretical and computational background will significantly help in the successful completion of this research. He will be responsible for providing the expertise to formulate the structure of the automatic layer, and will provide the applied cases for the project according to certain required applications in his research laboratory. The project meets INT criteria for support of cooperative projects that are mutually beneficial. Funding for this project is provided by the Division of International Programs and the Division of Computer-Communications Research.