Data parallelism, in which the same operation is performed on many elements of an n-dimensional array, is one of the most powerful methods of extracting parallelism in scientific computation. One form of data parallelism involves defining a sequence of parallel wavefronts of a computation. Each wavefront consists of an (n - l)-dimcnsional subarray of the evaluated array and all wavefront elements are evaluated simultaneously. Different wavefronts result in different performance, so the question arises how to determine the wavefronts that result in the minimum computation time. Wavefront determination should define also allocation of wavefront elements to processors.