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Issues and challenges in compiling for the CBEA

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LCTES '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1254766.1254786

Published: 13 June 2007 Publication History

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It has been demonstrated that expert programmers can develop and hand tune applications to exploit the full performance potential of the CBE architecture. We believe that sophisticated compiler optimization technology can bridge the gap between usability and performance in this arena. To this end we have developed a research prototype compiler targeting the Cell processor.

In this talk we describe a variety of compiler techniques to exploit the Cell processor. These techniques are aimed at automatically generating high quality codes for the heterogeneous parallelism available on the Cell processor. In particular we will focus the discussion on managing the small local memories of the SPEs and discuss our approach to presenting the user with a single shared memory image through our compiler controlled software cache. We will also report and discuss the results we have achieved to date, which indicate that significant speedup can be achieved on this processor with a high level of support from the compiler.

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Yan MZhao PYang ZLi S(2009)Exploiting Parallelism through High Level Optimization on a Heterogeneous Multicore SoCProceedings of the 2009 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems10.1109/ICPADS.2009.7(527-534)Online publication date: 8-Dec-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICPADS.2009.7

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Issues and challenges in compiling for the CBEA
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Other architectures
      1. Heterogeneous (hybrid) systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Compilers

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LCTES '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems

June 2007

258 pages

ISBN:9781595936325

DOI:10.1145/1254766

General Chair:
Santosh Pande
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Program Chair:
Zhiyuan Li
Purdue University, USA

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 42, Issue 7
Proceedings of the 2007 LCTES conference
July 2007
241 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/1273444
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Published: 13 June 2007

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LCTES 07: ACM SIGBED-SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems

June 13 - 15, 2007

California, San Diego, USA

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Yan MZhao PYang ZLi S(2009)Exploiting Parallelism through High Level Optimization on a Heterogeneous Multicore SoCProceedings of the 2009 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems10.1109/ICPADS.2009.7(527-534)Online publication date: 8-Dec-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICPADS.2009.7

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