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P. K. Mishra This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.1

1Department of Applied Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi  835215, India


 

Received: March 22, 2004
Accepted: October 8, 2004
Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Download Citation: ||https://doi.org/10.6180/jase.2005.8.1.01  


ABSTRACT


We present a technique for finding a lower bound on the number of processors needed to achieve a given schedule of an algorithm represented as a dag for a Diophantine system. The application of this technique is illustrated with a tensor product computation. We then provide a time-minimal processor schedule that meets the computed processor lower bounds, including the one for tensor product. We produce a formula for the number of lattice points in the convex polyhedron that are scheduled for a particular time step (which is a lower bound on the number of processors needed to satisfy the schedule). This is done by constructing a system of parametric linear Diophantine equations whose solutions represent the lattice points of interest. Our principal contribution to lower bounds in the algorithm and its implementation for constructing the generating function from which a formula for the number of these solutions is produced.


Keywords: Diophantine System, Systolic Algorithm, Generating Function, DAG


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