A survey of loop parallelization: Models, approaches, and recent developments

Abstract

In cloud computing era, automatic parallelization is still significant for virtualization platform. However, after several decades of development, the overall effect is still to be improved. Summary of the mainstream technology developments will be beneficial to reveal the future direction and trend. This paper reviews the technology of loop parallelization, which is the key issue in automatic parallelization. After introducing the basic models and approaches, we focus on the recent developments, on which we obtain the trend of this field and the conclusions about future.