CI-EN: Enhancing the Cetus Compiler Infrastructure

CI-EN：增强 Cetus 编译器基础设施

• 批准号: 1405954
• 负责人: Samuel Midkiff
• 金额: $ 56.39万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1405954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; EN; Enhancing; Cetus; Compiler

Compilers are software tools that bridge the gap between the functions supported by hardware processor and high level programming languages. Cetus is a compiler infrastructure at Purdue University, is publicly available (downloaded over 1000 times for use in compiler research), and has become an important part of the global compiler research infrastructure. The Cetus compiler infrastructures supports the goals of the NSF CRI program by providing an easy to extend code base that allows the broader compiler research community to avoid having to repeatedly re-implement foundational compiler techniques and thereby accelerating the discovery of knowledge in the area of compilers and programming tools. The work funded by this proposal has several goals. First, the group will continue to maintain this essential infrastructure for the community and to add enhancements that satisfy user requirements. Second, the group will continue to keep Cetus' internal representations at a high level of abstraction allowing it to be used as a building block for instructional purposes. Third, while Cetus is the most advanced program parallelizer, its capabilities will be further enhanced, particularly for GPU accelerators, for analyzing and optimizing irregular programs, and for auto-tuning programs for best results. Finally, Cetus will be made available for use with Purdue's NanoHub, which is a cyber-infrastructure platform for research on emerging technologies.

编译器是在硬件处理器和高级编程语言支持的功能之间架起桥梁的软件工具。Cetus是普渡大学的编译器基础设施，是公开可用的（下载超过1000次用于编译器研究），并已成为全球编译器研究基础设施的重要组成部分。Cetus编译器基础结构通过提供易于扩展的代码库来支持NSF CRI计划的目标，这使得更广泛的编译器研究社区不必重复地重新实现基本的编译器技术，从而加速了编译器和编程工具领域知识的发现。本提案资助的工作有几个目标。首先，该小组将继续为社区维护这个基本的基础设施，并添加满足用户需求的增强功能。其次，该小组将继续保持Cetus的内部表示在一个高层次的抽象，允许它被用作教学目的的构建块。第三，虽然Cetus是最先进的程序并行化器，但它的功能将进一步增强，特别是对于GPU加速器，分析和优化不规则程序，以及自动调整程序以获得最佳结果。最后，Cetus将与普渡大学的NanoHub一起使用，NanoHub是一个研究新兴技术的网络基础设施平台。