[comp.parallel] Performance Prediction Tool for Parallelizing Compilers ?

thomasf@globe.edrc.cmu.edu (Thomas Fahringer) (05/03/91)

Hi there,

I am interested in any kind of material, papers, books, references, 
ideas, thoughts, critics, etc. about 

	PERFORMANCE PREDICTION tools/strategies/philosophies which
		were (will be) developed for parallelizing compilers
		or might be used by parallelizing compilers to semi-
		or fully automatically predict the performance of 
		some program to be run on a parallel system.

	I am not really interested in some kind of pseudo-hand analysis of
	some algorithms running in parallel. 

	I'm mainly interested in methods which could be used to 
	(semi-)AUTOMATICALLY predict the performance
	of a let's say Fortran program to be run on a parallel system.
	Thus such a tool could be used by a parallelizing compiler to
        find out about the performance outcome of some data partitions or
	alignment strategies or transformation sequences before actually
	running the program on the real machine.

If anyone asks for, I will be glad to post a summary.

Thanks in advance.

Tom

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