C, score 49 52

content of a.c:

typedef void V;typedef char C;typedef long L;typedef unsigned long U;
#define R return
#define W while
#define S static
#include<sys/syscall.h>
#define h1(f,x    )({L r;asm volatile("syscall":"=a"(r):"0"(SYS_##f),"D"(x)              :"cc","rcx","r11","memory");r;})
#define h3(f,x,y,z)({L r;asm volatile("syscall":"=a"(r):"0"(SYS_##f),"D"(x),"S"(y),"d"(z):"cc","rcx","r11","memory");r;})
#define read(a...) h3(read ,a)
#define write(a...)h3(write,a)
#define exit(a...) h1(exit ,a)
S V P(U x){C s[32],*p=s+32;*--p='\n';do{*--p='0'+x%10;x/=10;}W(x);write(1,p,s+32-p);}
S V mc(V*x,V*y,L n){C*p=x,*q=y;for(L i=0;i<n;i++)p[i]=q[i];}
#define min(x,y)({typeof(x)_x=(x),_y=(y);_x+(_y-_x)*(_y<_x);})
#define t(x,i,j)x[(i)*(n+n-(i)+1)/2+(j)] //triangle indexing
#define x(i,j)t(x,i,j)
#define y(i,j)t(y,i,j)
#define z(i,j)t(z,i,j)
#define swp(x,y){typeof(x)h=(x);(x)=(y);(y)=h;}
#define N 4096 //max
L n;U ka[1+N],b[N],c[N],x[N*(N+1)/2],y[N*(N+1)/2],z[N*(N+1)/2];
V _start(){
 C s[1<<20];L r=0;U v=0;
 W(0<(r=read(0,s,sizeof(s))))for(L i=0;i<r;i++)if('0'<=s[i]&&s[i]<='9'){v=s[i]-'0'+10*v;}else{ka[n++]=v;v=0;}
 n--;U k=*ka,*a=ka+1;
 for(L i=n-1;i>=0;i--)for(L j=i-1;j>=0;j--)x(j,i)=x(j+1,i)-a[j]+a[i];
 for(L i=0;i<n;i++)for(L j=i+1;j<n;j++)y(i,j)=y(i,j-1)+a[j]-a[i];
 for(L i=0;i<n;i++)for(L j=i+1;j<n;j++){U v=~0ul;for(L l=i;l<j;l++)v=min(v,x(i,l)+y(l,j));z(i,j)=v;}
 mc(c,z,8*n);
 for(L m=1;m<k;m++)for(L j=n-1;j>m;j--){U v=~0ul;for(L i=j-1;i>=m;i--)v=min(v,c[i]+z(i+1,j));c[j]=v;}
 P(c[n-1]);exit(0);}

shell script to compile and test the above:

#!/bin/bash -e
clang -O3 -nostdlib -ffreestanding -fno-unwind-tables -fno-unroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -oa a.c
strip -R.comment -R'.note*' a;stat -c'size:%s' a
t(){ r="$(echo "$1"|./a)";if [ "$r" != "$2" ];then echo "in:$1, expected:$2, actual:$r";fi;} #func tests
t '1 0 2 4 6 8' 12
t '3 0 1 10 11 20 21 22 30 32' 23
t '5 0 1 3 6 8 11 14' 3
t '6 0 1 3 6 8 14 15 18 29 30 38 41 45 46 49 58 66 72 83 84' 49
for n in 1176 1351 1552 1782 2048;do #perf test
 echo "n:$n";a=0 inp="$((2*n/3))" RANDOM=1;for i in `seq $n`;do inp="$inp $a";a=$((a+=RANDOM%1000));done
 ulimit -t10 -v1048576;time ./a<<<"$inp"
done

n=776 takes 6.2s, n=891 takes 12s

n=1176 takes 5.9s, n=1351 takes a little over 10s (with k=2*n/3) on my Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2375M CPU @ 1.50GHz