Precise and efficient dependence tests are essential to the effectiveness of a parallelizing compiler. This paper proposes a dependence testing scheme based on classifying pairs of subscripted variable references. Exact yet fast dependence tests are presented for certain classes of array references, as well as empirical results showing that these references dominate scientific Fortran codes. These dependence tests are being implemented at Rice University in both PFC, a parallelizing compiler, and ParaScope, a parallel programming environment.

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Abstract. We present a new Simplex-based linear arithmetic solver that can be integrated efficiently in the DPLL(T) framework. The new solver improves over existing approaches by enabling fast backtracking, supporting a priori simplification to reduce the problem size, and providing an efficient form of theory propagation. We also present a new and simple approach for solving strict inequalities. Experimental results show substantial performance improvements over existing tools that use other Simplex-based solvers in DPLL(T) decision procedures. The new solver is even competitive with state-of-the-art tools specialized for the difference logic fragment. 1

The reverse search technique has been recently introduced by the authors for efficient enumeration of vertices of polyhedra and arrangements. In this paper, we develop this idea in a general framework and show its broader applications to various problems in operations research, combinatorics, and geometry. In particular, we propose new algorithms for listing (i) all triangulations of a set of n points in the plane, (ii) all cells in a hyperplane arrangement in R d , (iii) all spanning trees of a graph, (iv) all Euclidean (non-crossing) trees spanning a set of n points in the plane, (v) all connected induced subgraphs of a graph, and (vi) all topological orderings of an acyclic graph. Finally we propose a new algorithm for the 0-1 integer programming problem which can be considered as an alternative to the branch-and-bound algorithm. 1 Introduction The listing of all objects that satisfy a specified property is a fundamental problem in combinatorics, computational geometr...

Of all scientific investigations into reasoning with uncertainty and chance, probability theory is perhaps the best understood paradigm. Nevertheless, all studies conducted thus far into the semantics of quantitative logic programming (cf. van Emden [51], Fitting [18, 19, 20], Blair and Subrahmanian [5, 6, 49, 50], Kifer et al [29, 30, 31]) have restricted themselves to non-probabilistic semantical characterizations. In this paper, we take a few steps towards rectifying this situation. We define a logic programming language that is syntactically similar to the annotated logics of [5, 6], but in which the truth values are interpreted probabilistically. A probabilistic model theory and fixpoint theory is developed for such programs. This probabilistic model theory satisfies the requirements proposed by Fenstad [16] for a function to be called probabilistic. The logical treatment of probabilities is complicated by two facts: first, that the connectives cannot be interpreted truth function...

Polyhedra are geometric representations of linear systems of equations and inequalities. Since polyhedra are used to represent the iteration domains of nested loop programs, procedures for operating on polyhedra are useful for doing loop transformations and other program restructuring transformations which are needed in parallelizing compilers. Thus a need for a library of polyhedral operations has recently been recognized in the parallelizing compiler community. Polyhedra are also used in the definition of domains of variables in systems of affine recurrence equations (SARE). Alpha is a language which is based on the SARE formalism in which all variables are declared over finite unions of polyhedra. This report describes a library of polyhedral functions which was developed to support the Alpha language environment, and which is general enough to satisfy the needs of researchers doing parallelizing compilers. This report describes the data structures used to represent domains, gives...

This paper presents an overview of automatic program parallelization techniques. It covers dependence analysis techniques, followed by a discussion of program transformations, including straight-line code parallelization, do loop transformations, and parallelization of recursive routines. The last section of the paper surveys several experimental studies on the effectiveness of parallelizing compilers.

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Abstract. This paper gives an algcmthm for solving linear programming problems. For a problem with tz constraints and d variables, the algorithm requires an expected O(d’n) + (log n)o(d)d’’+(’(’) + o(dJA log n) arithmetic operations, as rz ~ ~. The constant factors do not depend on d. Also, an algorlthm N gwen for integer hnear programmmg. Let p bound the number of bits required to specify the ratmnal numbers defmmg an input constraint or the ob~ective function vector. Let n and d be as before. Then, the algorithm requires expected 0(2d dn + S~dm In n) + dc)’d) ~ in H operations on numbers with O(1~p bits d ~ ~ ~z + ~, where the constant factors do not depend on d or p. The expectations are with respect to the random choices made by the algorithms, and the bounds hold for any gwen input. The techmque can be extended to other convex programming problems. For example, m algorlthm for finding the smallest sphere enclosing a set of /z points m Ed has the same t]me bound

In order to produce efficient parallel programs, optimizing compilers need to include an analysis of the initial sequential code. When analyzing loops with affine loop bounds, many computations are relevant to the same general problem: counting the number of integer solutions of selected free variables in a set of linear and/or nonlinear parameterized constraints. For example, computing the number of flops executed by a loop, of memory locations touched by a loop, of cache lines touched by a loop, or of array elements that need to be transmitted from a processor to another during the execution of a loop, is useful to determine if a loop is load balanced, evaluate message traffic and allocate message buffers. The objective of the presented method is to evaluate symbolically, in terms of symbolic constants (the size parameters) , this number of integer solutions. By modeling the considered counting problem as a union of rational convex polytopes, the number of included integer points is ...