Exploitation of Fine-grain Parallelism - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index. Table of Contents: Kinds of parallelism.- Architectures for fine-grain parallelism.- VLIW machines.- Constraints on VLIW architectures.- Architectural support for exploitation of fine-grain parallelism.- Constraints for instruction scheduling.- Instruction-scheduling methods.- Developing instruction-scheduling methods.- Tools for instruction scheduling.- The machine model.- The horizontal instruction-scheduler.- Resource management.- Exceptions.- Vertical instruction-scheduling.- Conclusion. Publisher Marketing: Many parallel computer architectures are especially suited for particular classes of applications. However, there are only a few parallel architectures equally well suited for standard programs. Much effort is invested in research in compiler techniques to make programming parallel machines easier.