Efficient Distribution by Static Analysis
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by Andre Spiegel
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Abstract:
Abstract. Distribution is an aspect of parallel programming that becomes increasingly well understood and handled ever more transparently on recently developed distribution platforms. We show in this paper that the performance of such platforms can be improved by static information about a program's logic and structure which is impossible to determine at run-time. Examples for this include object immutability and the dynamic scoping of object references. We present a set of static analysis algorithms that can obtain this information automatically, and we introduce an automatic distribution environment called Pangaea which we are currently building to use these algorithms for parallel, high-performance computing in Java. 1
