Adl Project Publications

Published Papers

An Overview of the Adl Language Project -- Alexander, Engelhardt and Wendelborn. In Proceedings Conference on High Performance Functional Computing, Denver, Colorado, April 1995. abstract
A Partitioning-Independent Paradigm for Nested Data Parallelism -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. International Journal of Parallel Programming v24n4, August 1996. Also appears in Proceedings IFIP International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT95), Cyprus, June 1995. abstract
A Multi-Threaded Implementation of Nested Data Parallelism -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. Australian Computer Science Communications, vol. 19, no. 1 (Feb. 1997). abstract
High-Level Specification of Data Layout in a Distributed Nested Data Parallel Computation -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. Proc. PART98, Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 1998 (Springer). abstract

Technical Reports

Adl: The Adelaide Language -- Roe. Original document outlining the goals of the language. [Oct 1992]
Mapping Adl to the Bird-Meertens Formalism -- Alexander. [Sep 1994]
Data Movement Optimisation in Adl -- Alexander. [Dec 1994]
Expressing Nested Data Parallel Operations Through Multithreading -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. University of Adelaide TR 94-16 [May 1994]
Visualizing Communications Patterns in Nested Data-Parallel Computations -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. University of Adelaide TR 96-02 [Jan 1996]

Related Publications

Previous work of the Adl group includes performance evaluation of the vector facilities of the CM-5 hardware. One paper and several extended reports describe this work:

Experiences with CDPEAC: Vectorising a Laplace Iteration on the CM-5 -- Engelhardt and Wendelborn. Appeared in the Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Christchurch, January 1994.
An Extended Example of the algorithm described in the ACSC17 paper.
Evaluation of Characteristics of Three Programming Paradigms Supported by Existing CM-5 Software -- Engelhardt [Jan 1993].

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