Exploiting Task-Level Parallelism Using pTask

This paper presents pTask-- a system that allows users to automatically exploit dynamic task-level parallelism in sequential array-based C programs. The system employs compiler analysis to extract data usage information from the program, then uses this information at run-time to dynamically exploit concurrency and to enforce data-dependences. Experimental results using a prototype of the system show scaling performance and low overhead on a 32-processor KSR1 multiprocessor for a number of applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Tarek S. Abdelrahman, Sum Huynh
• Keywords: 32-processor Ksr1 Multiprocessor, Dynamic Task-level Parallelism, Paper Presents PTask, PDPTA 1996, PDPTA 2007