Reptile : a distributed ILP compiler

The past few years witnessed a dramatic shift in computer microprocessor design. Rather than continue with the traditional pursuit of increased sequential program performance, industry and academia alike chose to focus on distributed, multi-core designs. If multi-core designs are to maintain the decades-long trend of increased single threaded performance, compiler technology capable of converting a single threaded program into multiple programs must be developed. In this thesis I present the Raw Explicitly Parallel Tile Compiler (Reptile), a compiler targeting the RAW computer architecture capable of converting a single threaded program into multiple threads communicating at the instruction operand granularity. On applications with sufficient amounts of parallelism Reptile has generated code which, on the Raw processor, achieves a speedup of as much as 2.3x (cycle to cycle) over an Athlon64.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Bratt, Ian (Ian R.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Anant Agarwal.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34372

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/34372