By the author of the classic 1989 monograph, Optimizing Supercompilers for Supercomputers, this book covers the knowledge and skills necessary to build a competitive, advanced compiler for parallel or high-performance computers. Starting with a review of basic terms and algorithms used-such as graphs, trees, and matrix algebra-Wolfe shares the lessons of his 20 years experience developing compiler products such as KAP, the capstone product of Kuck and Associates, Inc., of Champaign, Illinois.

Michael Joseph WOLFE, 1954- .

As co-founder in 1979 of Kuck and Associates, Inc., Michael Wolfe helped develop KAP restructuring, parallelizing compiler software. In 1988, Wolfe joined the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology faculty, directing research on language and compiler issues for high performance computer systems. His current research includes development and implementation of program restructuring transformations to optimize programs for execution on parallel computers, refinement and application of recent results in analysis techniques to low level compiler optimizations, and analysis of data dependence decision algorithms.