We propose a sequence of equational transformations and specializations which turns a divide-and-conquer skeleton in Haskell into a parallel loop nest in C. Our initial skeleton is often viewed as general divide-and-conquer. The specializations impose a balanced call tree, a fixed degree of the problem division, and elementwise operations. Our goal is to select parallel implementations of divide-and-conquer via a space-time mapping, which can be determined at compile time. The correctness of our transformations is proved by equational reasoning in Haskell; recursion and iteration are handled by induction. Finally, we demonstrate the practicality of the skeleton by expressing Strassen's matrix multiplication in it.

. An SPMD parallel implementation schema for divide-and-conquer specifications is proposed and derived by formal refinement (transformation) of the specification. The specification is in the form of a mutually recursive functional definition. In a first phase, a parallel functional program schema is constructed which consists of a communication tree and a functional program that is shared by all nodes of the tree. The fact that this phase proceeds by semanticspreserving transformations in the Bird-Meertens formalism of higher-order functions guarantees the correctness of the resulting functional implementation. A second phase yields an imperative distributed message-passing implementation of this schema. The derivation process is illustrated with an example: a twodimensional numerical integration algorithm. 1. Introduction One of the main problems in exploiting modern multiprocessor systems is how to develop correct and efficient programs for them. We address this problem using the ap...

This paper considers parallel program development based on functional mutually recursive specifications. The development yields a communication structure linking an arbitrary fixed number of processors and an SPMD program executable on the structure. There are two steps in the development process: first, a parallel functional implementation is obtained through formal transformations in the Bird-Meertens formalism; it is then systematically transformed into an imperative target program with message passing. The approach is illustrated with a divide-and-conquer algorithm for numerical twodimensional sparse grid integration. The optimization of the target program and the results of experimental performance measurements on a 64-transputer network under OS Parix are presented. 1 Introduction We take the following approach to parallelization: we try to identify certain standard patterns of high-level functional specifications and to associate equivalent parallel programs to them...

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