Abstract
The majority of scientific and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications are recursive or iterative. Transformation techniques are generally applied to increase parallelism for these nested loops. Most of the existing loop transformation techniques either can not achieve maximum parallelism, or can achieve maximum parallelism but with complicated loop bounds and loop indexes calculations. This paper proposes a new technique, loop striping, that can maximize parallelism while maintaining the original row-wise execution sequence with minimum overhead. Loop striping groups iterations into stripes, where a stripe is a group of iterations in which all iterations are independent and can be executed in parallel. Theorems and efficient algorithms are proposed for loop striping transformations. The experimental results show that loop striping always achieves better iteration period than software pipelining and loop unfolding, improving average iteration period by 50% and 54% respectively.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics) |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 405-414 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783540366812 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783540366799 |
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Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Event | International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing [EUC] - Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing [EUC] |
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Period | 1/01/06 → … |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Theoretical Computer Science