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Optimizing compiler for improving application performance on many-core coprocessors

a compiler and many-core technology, applied in the field of compilers, can solve the problems of requiring significant developer effort and experimentation to maximize performance, and achieve the effect of eliminating one or more redundant data transfers

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-02-28
NEC LAB AMERICA
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The patent describes a method for compiling code from an application stored in a computer-readable medium. The method identifies parts of the code that can be parallelized, and then optimizes these parts by changing the way the code is written. This change makes the application run faster and more efficiently. The optimizations include moving code around, eliminating redundant data transfers, and generating direct memory access. The technical effect of this method is to improve the performance of the application by making it run faster and more efficiently.

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However, porting legacy applications to the MIC architecture may involve manually identifying highly parallel code portions and corresponding data transfers, which may require significant developer effort and experimentation to maximize performance.

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[0018]In accordance with the present principles, a compiler for ×86-based many-core coprocessors is provided to port legacy applications to benefit from many-core architecture. Preferably, the compiler receives an annotated application identifying parallelizable code portions. For each parallelizable code portion, the compiler first performs a liveness analysis to determine variables that are to be copied in to (live-in variables) and out of (live-out variables) the many-core coprocessor. An array bound analysis is also performed to determine the start and end location of each array / pointer used in the code portion as a size in memory.

[0019]The compiler then transforms the parallelizable code portions by inserting an offload construct before the parallelizable code portions. In / out / inout clauses are passed as arguments of the offload construct and are populated based on the results of the liveness analysis and array bound analysis. In a preferred embodiment, the parallelizable code ...

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Abstract

A system and method for compiling includes parsing code of an application stored in a computer readable storage medium to identify one or more parallelizable code portions. At least one parallelizable code portion is optimized by transforming offload construct code portions to provide an optimized application.

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RELATED APPLICATION INFORMATION[0001]This application claims priority to provisional application Ser. No. 61 / 527,147 filed on Aug. 25, 2011 and provisional application Ser. No. 61 / 605,370 filed on Mar. 1, 2012, both of which are incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Technical Field[0003]The present invention relates to a compiler, and more specifically to an optimizing compiler for many-core coprocessors.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Many core processors, such as the Intel™ Many Integrated Core (MIC), are aimed at accelerating multi-core high performance computing (HPC) applications. Legacy applications can be compiled and executed on MIC by selectively inserting Language Extensions for Offload (LEO) keywords in the application code identifying parallel code portions to be offloaded to the MIC coprocessor. The goal is to improve overall application performance by taking advantage of the large number of cores on MIC (for multithreading) and the wide singl...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/45
CPCG06F8/4441G06F8/443G06F8/456G06F8/451G06F9/52
Inventor RAVI, NISHKAMBAO, TAOOZTURK, OZCANCHAKRADHAR, SRIMAT
Owner NEC LAB AMERICA
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