Method and system for converting a single-threaded software program into an application-specific supercomputer

A general-purpose supercomputer for performing parallel execution of parallel software compiled from a code fragment within a single-threaded software application, where the general-purpose supercomputer comprises:

• a. a plurality of general-purpose processors;
• b. at least one task network connected to the plurality of general-purpose processors, allowing a first general-purpose processor on the task network to send a task invocation request to a second general-purpose processor on said task network, and to receive back from the second general-purpose processor either a task result message or a task completion acknowledgement;
• c. at least one hardware synchronization unit to ensure that if a memory instruction instance I2 is dependent on a memory instruction instance I1 in sequential execution of the code fragment, the memory instruction instance I2 is executed after the memory instruction instance I1 in the parallel execution of the parallel software performed by the general-purpose supercomputer;
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• d. at least one coherent memory hierarchy, which:
• (i) supports a plurality of load/store ports that are accessed by the plurality of general-purpose processors in parallel;
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• (ii) signals a completion of each memory instruction issued from each load/store port of the plurality of load/store ports, for supporting synchronization units;
• where parallel execution of the parallel software by the general-purpose supercomputer is functionally equivalent to sequential execution of the code fragment within the single-threaded software application;
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• where the general-purpose supercomputer is implemented as a plurality of copies of a union module implemented in ASIC technology, with scalable network connections, and where the union module implemented in ASIC technology is able to perform function of any of a plurality of modules resulting from partitioning a hardware design of the general-purpose supercomputer.