Array languages and the N-body problem

摘要: This paper is a description of the contributions to Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Multi-core Challenge on many body planetary simulation made by compiler group at University Glasgow. Our part Vision Graphics research group, we have for some years been developing array compilers because think these are good tool both expressing graphics algorithms exploiting parallelism that computer vision applications require. We shall describe experiments using two languages different platforms, compare performance with reference C implementations running same platforms. Finally, draw conclusions about viability language approach as compared other approaches used in challenge also strengths weaknesses two, very different, processor architectures used. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.