6. PPOPP 1997: Las Vegas, Nevada

Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP), Las Vegas, Nevada, 18-21 June 1997. SIGPLAN Notices 32(7), July 1997

Data and Task Parallelism

Jaspal Subhlok, Bwolen Yang: A New Model for Integrated Nested Task and Data Parallel Programming. 1-12 BibTeX
Y. Charlie Hu, S. Lennart Johnsson, Shang-Hua Teng: High Performance FORTRAN for Highly Unstructured Problems. 13-24 BibTeX
Girija J. Narlikar, Guy E. Blelloch: Space-Efficient Implementation of Nested Parallelism. 25-36 BibTeX

Irregular Applications (a)

Xingbin Zhang, Andrew A. Chien: Dynamic Pointer Alignment: Tiling and Communication Optimizations for Parallel Pointer-based Computations. 37-47 BibTeX
Honghui Lu, Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramakrishnan Rajamony, Willy Zwaenepoel: Compiler and Software Distributed Shared Memory Support for Irregular Applications. 48-56 BibTeX
Cong Fu, Tao Yang: Space and Time Efficient Execution of Parallel Irregular Computation. 57-68 BibTeX

Coherence Protocols

Ricardo Bianchini, Enrique V. Carrera, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis: The Interaction of Parallel Programming Constructs and Coherence Protocols. 69-79 BibTeX
Mukund Raghavachari, Anne Rogers: Ace: Linguistic Mechanisms for Customizable Protocols. 80-89 BibTeX

Shared Memory (a)

Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Karthick Rajamani, Willy Zwaenepoel: Trade-offs Between False Sharing and Aggregation in Software Distributed Shared Memory. 90-99 BibTeX
Satish Chandra, James R. Larus: Optimizing Communication in HPF programs for Fine-Grain Distributed Shared Memory. 100-111 BibTeX
Martin C. Rinard: Effective Fine-Grain Synchronization for Automatically Parallelized Programs Using Optimistic Synchronization Primitives. 112-123 BibTeX

Irregular Applications (b)

Angela Sodan, Guang R. Gao, Olivier Maquelin, Jens-Uwe Schultz, Xinmin Tian: Experiences with Non-numeric Applications on Multithreaded Architectures. 124-135 BibTeX
Laurent Hascoët: Automatic Placement of Communications in Mesh-Partitioning Parallelization. 136-144 BibTeX
Bwolen Yang, David R. O'Hallaron: Parallel Breadth-First BDD Construction. 145-156 BibTeX

Compilers

Junjie Gu, Zhiyuan Li, Gyungho Lee: Experience with Efficient Array Data-Flow Analysis for Array Privatization. 157-167 BibTeX
Fabien Coelho: Compiling Dynamic Mappings with Array Copies. 168-179 BibTeX
G. N. Srinivasa Prasanna: Compilation of Parallel Multimedia Computations - Extending Retiming Theory and Amdahl's Law. 180-192 BibTeX

Shared Memory (b)

Yuanyuan Zhou, Liviu Iftode, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Kai Li, Brian R. Toonen, Ioannis Schoinas, Mark D. Hill, David A. Wood: Relaxed Consistency and Coherence Granularity in DSM Systems: A Performance Evaluation. 193-205 BibTeX
Jeremy D. Frens, David S. Wise: Auto-blocking Matrix-Multiplication or Tracking BLAS3 Performance with Source Code. 206-216 BibTeX

Performance Issues

Dongming Jiang, Hongzhang Shan, Jaswinder Pal Singh: Performance Portability of Applications and Optimizations Across Shared Address Space Multiprocessors. 217-229 BibTeX
Beng-Hong Lim, Chi-Chao Chang, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Thorsten von Eicken: Performance Implications of Communication Mechanisms in All-Software Global Address Space Systems. 230-239 BibTeX
Zhichen Xu, James R. Larus, Barton P. Miller: Shared Memory Performance Profiling. 240-251 BibTeX

Salmagundi

Dongming Jiang, Jaswinder Pal Singh: Parallel Shear-Warp Volume Rendering on Shared Address Space Multiprocessors. 252-263 BibTeX
Kenjiro Taura, Akinori Yonezawa: An Effective Garbage Collection Strategy for Parallel Programming Languages on Large Scale Distributed-Memory Machines. 264-275 BibTeX
Matthew Frank, Anant Agarwal, Mary K. Vernon: LoPC: Modeling Contention in Parallel Algorithms. 276-287 BibTeX