Design and Implementation of a Task Parallel Language

• Main Authors: Lin, Juang-Weei, 林仲偉
• Other Authors: Lin, Nai-Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12897311637558071813

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 86 === 　　In recent years, the high - level data parallel languages become more and more common in multiprocessor compurters and networks of workstations. However, problems in some fields can not be solved efficiently with data parallel language only. Applications that require different physical processors to execute different programs, possibly on different data sets, are such problems. Many applications, especially in image and signal processing, do not scale well when using only data parallelism, and in some scientic and engineering simulations, we want to implement different simulation disciplines on different processor nodes. For these practical reasons, we need high - level parallel programming languages that can exploit task parallelism. 　　In this thesis, we deverlope a language with task parallelism based on traditional C language, called Task Parallel C (TPC). In TPC, we provide programmers a simple mechanism to exploit concurrency to solve a problem by spawning cooperative tasks. And, we also provide them a simple mechanism for passing message between tasks. Preliminary experimental results gives us a good guidance for future improvements.