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A direct approach for finding loop transformation matrices

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Loop transformations, such as loop interchange, reversal and skewing, have been unified under linear matrix transformations. A legal transformation matrix is usually generated based upon distance vectors or direction vectors. Unfortunately, for some nested loops, distance vectors may not be computable and direction vectors, on the other hand, may not contain useful information. We propose the use of linear equations or inequalities of distance vectors to approximate data dependence. This approach is advantageous since (1) many loops having no constant distance vectors have very simple equations of distance vectors; (2) these equations contain more information than derection vectors do, thus the chance of exploiting potential parallesism is improved.

In general, the equations or inequalities that approximate the data dependence of a given nested loop is not unique, hence classification is discussed for the purpose of loop transformation. Efficient algorithms are developed to generate all kinds of linear equations of distance vectors for a given nested loop. The issue of how to obtain a desired transformation matrix from those equations is also addressed.

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  1. Electrical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, TX, U.S.A.

    Lin Hua & Lü Mi

  2. Hewlett-Packard Lab, P.O. Box 10490, 94303, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A

    Jesse Z. Fang

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This research was supported by the Texas Advanced Technology Program under Grant No. 999903-165.

LIN Hua received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Fudan University, People’s Republic of China., in 1983 and 1986, respectively. Beginning in 1986, he taught for three years in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Fudan University as a Lecturer, and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. His research interests include the design and analysis of parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, and the parallelizing compiler.

Lü Mi received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, in 1984 and 1987, respectively.

She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University in 1987 where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research interests include parallel computing, distributed processing, parallel computer architectures and applications, computational geometry and VLSI algorithms. She has published over 60 technical papers in these areas. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Texas Advanced Technology Program.

Dr. LÜ is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society. She is the Associate Editor of a number of professional journals, and the Stream Chairman of the 7th International Conference on Computing and Information. She served on the panels of NSF and IEEE Workshop on Imprecise and Approximate Computation’92, and on the Program Committees of the International Conference on Computing and Information’94, the Joint Conference on Information Science’94 and the IASTEDISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems’95. She is a registered professional engineer.

Jesse Z. FANG received his B. S. degree in mathematics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from The University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1982 and 1984 respectively.

After graduate, he taught at Computer Science Department at Wichita State University and was an visiting senior computer scientist in the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 1986 to 1989, he was a consultant member of technical staff at the Concurrent Computer Corp. From 1989 to 1991, he worked on parallel/vectorized compiler and supercomputing system design for CONVEX Computer Corp. as a program manager in Software Development Department. He is currently working on Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to develop compilers for Hewlett-Packard new generation RISC architecture as a project manager. His research interests are instruction-level parallel compiler technologies on RISC architecture, superscalar and VLIW RISC architecture, parallel processing system, parallel/vectorized compiler, scheduling and synchronization.

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Lin, H., Lü, M. & Fang, J.Z. A direct approach for finding loop transformation matrices. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 11, 237–256 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943132

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