• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.9A no.2
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• pp.249-258
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• 2002

One of the jai or purposes of multiprocessor system is to get a high efficiency in performance improvement. But in most cases, it is unavoidable to use some special programming languages or tools for full use of multiprocessor system. In general, loop and recursive call statements of algorithms are considered as typical parts for parallelization. Especially, recursive call statements are easy to parallelize conceptually without support of any special languages or tools. But it is difficult to control the degree of parallelism caused by high depth of recursive call leading to execution crash. This paper proposes a device to control Parallelism in the process of POSIX thread bated parallelization of recursive algorithms. For this, we define the concept of thread and process in UNIX system, and analyze the results of experimental application of the device to quick sorting algorithm.