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dc.contributor.advisorCharles Leiserson.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPerez, Ruben (Ruben M.)en_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-14T15:40:25Z
dc.date.available2013-02-14T15:40:25Z
dc.date.copyright2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77032
dc.descriptionThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 37).en_US
dc.description.abstractCertain algorithms can be effectively parallelized at the cost of performing some redundant work. One example is searching an unordered tree graph for a particular node. Each subtree can be searched in parallel by a separate thread. Once a single thread is successful, however, the work of the others is unneeded and should be ended. This type of computation is known as speculative parallelism. Typically, an abort command is provided in the programming language to provide this functionality, but some languages do not. This thesis shows how support for the abort command can be provided as a user-level library. A parallel version of the alpha beta search algorithm demonstrates its effectivenesss.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Ruben Perez.en_US
dc.format.extent37 p.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsM.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582en_US
dc.subjectElectrical Engineering and Computer Science.en_US
dc.titleSpeculative parallelism in Intel Cilk Plusen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeM.Eng.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.identifier.oclc825818523en_US


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