The goal of the Olden project is to build a system that provides parallelism for general purpose C programs with minimal programmer annotations. We focus on programs using dynamic structures such as trees, lists, and DAGs. We demonstrate that providing both software caching and computation migration can improve the performance of these programs, and provide a compile-time heuristic that selects between them for each pointer dereference. We have implemented a prototype system on the Thinking Machines CM-5. We describe our implementation and report on experiments with ten benchmarks. 1 Introduction Olden is a continuing project whose goals are to build a compiler and runtime system for C programs on distributed-memory SPMD machines, automatically detecting parallelism, and inserting communication as much as possible. We specifically focus on programs using recursive data structures. To date, little work has been done to address the problem of supporting these programs. Although work has...
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