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SARA: A Cray Assembly Language Speedup Tool

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Supercomputing

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 62))

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SARA (Single Assignment Register Assembler) is an extended form of CAL (Cray Assembly Language) meant for obtaining near optimal performance from relatively short (100’s of instruction) Cray X-MP basic block code sequences. The SARA Optimizing Preprocessor (informally referred to also as “SARA”) converts SARA source files into a form that is acceptable as input to standard Cray Research Inc. CAL Assemblers. The SARA Optimizing Preprocessor can greatly speed up the job of CAL coding by automating the difficult, tedious, and error-prone tasks of assigning registers and ordering instruction sequences to take maximum advantage of the Cray X-MP architecture.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Center, 19600 NW Von Neumann Dr, Beaverton, Oregon, 97006, USA

    Robert G. Babb II

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  1. Engineering Computing and Analysis, Boeing Computer Services, P.O. Box 24346, Seattle, WA, 98124, USA

    Janusz S. Kowalik

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Janusz S. Kowalik

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Babb, R.G. (1990). SARA: A Cray Assembly Language Speedup Tool. In: Kowalik, J.S. (eds) Supercomputing. NATO ASI Series, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75771-6_10

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