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The vector/array processor system was the general model for most early supercomputers. In order to utilize the power of these new vector/array machines, statements were added to FORTRAN or other languages to specify data parallelism. In these extensions, language constructs extended for data parallelism are only considered for vector operations, that is, only for one-dimensional data parallelism. However, many elementary numerical algorithms contain not only one-dimensional but also two-dimensional data parallelism. Parallel architectures are also developed to support two-dimensional data parallelism. This paper will present an approach to express multidimensional data parallelism in a high-level language and will show that program constructs in the approach are concise and orthogonal.
The research was supported by the volkswagen Foundation, the German Ministry of Research and Technology, the German National Science Foundation and the Chinese National Science Foundation.
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Bi, H. (1992). Explicit expression of multidimensional data parallelism. In: Etiemble, D., Syre, JC. (eds) PARLE '92 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55599-4_96
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