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Issue No.12 - December (2000 vol.11)
pp: 1201-1216
ABSTRACT
<p><b>Abstract</b>—In many scientific applications, dynamic array redistribution is usually required to enhance the performance of an algorithm. In this paper, we present a <it>generalized basic-cycle calculation</it> (<it>GBCC</it>) method to efficiently perform a <tt>BLOCK-CYCLIC</tt>(<it>s</it>) over <it>P</it> processors to <tt>BLOCK-CYCLIC</tt>(<it>t</it>) over <it>Q</it> processors array redistribution. In the <it>GBCC</it> method, a processor first computes the source/destination processor/data sets of array elements in the first generalized basic-cycle of the local array it owns. A generalized basic-cycle is defined as <tmath>$lcm(sP,\;tQ)/(gcd(s,t)\times P)$</tmath> in the source distribution and <tmath>$lcm(sP,\;tQ)/(gcd(s,t)\times Q)$</tmath> in the destination distribution. From the source/destination processor/data sets of array elements in the first generalized basic-cycle, we can construct packing/unpacking pattern tables to minimize the data-movement operations. Since each generalized basic-cycle has the same communication pattern, based on the packing/unpacking pattern tables, a processor can pack/unpack array elements efficiently. To evaluate the performance of the <it>GBCC</it> method, we have implemented this method on an IBM SP2 parallel machine, along with the <it>PITFALLS</it> method and the <it>ScaLAPACK</it> method. The cost models for these three methods are also presented. The experimental results show that the <it>GBCC</it> method outperforms the <it>PITFALLS</it> method and the <it>ScaLAPACK</it> method for all test samples. A brief description of the extension of the <it>GBCC</it> method to multidimensional array redistributions is also presented.</p>
INDEX TERMS
Redistribution, generalized basic-cycle calculation method, distributed memory multicomputers.
CITATION
Ching-Hsien Hsu, Sheng-Wen Bai, Yeh-Ching Chung, Chu-Sing Yang, "A Generalized Basic-Cycle Calculation Method for Efficient Array Redistribution", IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems, vol.11, no. 12, pp. 1201-1216, December 2000, doi:10.1109/71.895789
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