BibTeX entry:

                  @article{LGH97,
		  author={Christian Lengauer and Sergei Gorlatch and
		  Christoph A. Herrmann},
		  title={The Static Parallelization of Loops and
		  Recursions},
		  journal={J. Supercomputing},
		  volume=11,
		  number=4,
		  month=dec,
		  year=1997,
		  pages={\mbox{333--353}},
abstract={
  We demonstrate approaches to the static parallelization of loops and
  recursions on the example of the polynomial product. Phrased as a loop
  nest, the polynomial product can be parallelized automatically by
  applying a space-time mapping technique based on linear algebra and
  linear programming. One can choose a parallel program that is optimal
  with respect to some objective function like the number of execution
  steps, processors, channels, etc. However, at best, linear execution
  time complexity can be attained. Through phrasing the polynomial product
  as a divide-and-conquer recursion, one can obtain a parallel program
  with sublinear execution time. In this case, the target program is not
  derived by an automatic search but given as a program skeleton, which
  can be deduced by a sequence of equational program transformations.
  We discuss the use of such skeletons, compare and assess the models in
  which loops and divide-and-conquer recursions are parallelized and
  comment on the performance properties of the resulting parallel
  implementations.}

Paper itself:

Because of copyright restrictions we can only supply an almost identical previous version presented at the 11th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS'97). It contains a few typos. You can obtain the journal paper from the Web site of the journal or by asking the authors for a reprint.

Authors:

Cross links:

Christoph Herrmann