Compilation for explicitly managed memory hierarchies

  • Authors:

  • Timothy J. Knight;Ji Young Park;Manman Ren;Mike Houston;Mattan Erez;Kayvon Fatahalian;Alex Aiken;William J. Dally;Pat Hanrahan

  • Affiliations:

  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a compiler for machines with an explicitly managed memory hierarchy and suggest that a primary role of any compiler for such architectures is to manipulate and schedule a hierarchy of bulk operations at varying scales of the application and of the machine. We evaluate the performance of our compiler using several benchmarks running on a Cell processor.