Compilers - Profile Based Optimizations in parallel programs.

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Profile Based Optimizations in parallel programs.

2004-12-02, 3:57 am

Hello,

Does anyone know of work that has looked at profiling based
optimizations for parallel programs? I did some googling and didn't
find much. I am looking for parallel program optimizations that can be
guided using some program profile information.

Thanks!
-PK

Randy Crawford

2004-12-07, 4:21 am

PK wrote:
> Does anyone know of work that has looked at profiling based
> optimizations for parallel programs? I did some googling and didn't
> find much. I am looking for parallel program optimizations that can be
> guided using some program profile information.

I think you might want to search using "profile guided optimization" (or
"PGO"), "compiler", and "parallel".

You may find something in the compiler research done for EPIC
processors, since profiling and VLIW-style parallelism is (was)
fundamental to these architectures.

Here are a few sample Google hits that may be of interest:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=351411

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/167113.html

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~nvachh...s/cgo01_ose.pdf

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~hiper/pass...wayIASTED01.pdf

http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~scholz/pdfa.html

Wen-mei W. Hwu, Richard E. Hank, John C. Gyllenhaal: Using Profile
Information to Assist Advaced Compiler Optimization and Scheduling. LCPC
1992: 31-48

Using Profile Information to Assist Advanced Compiler Optimization and
Scheduling (PostScript version, PDF version)
William Y. Chen, Scott A. Mahlke, Nancy J. Warter, Richard E. Hank,
Roger A. Bringmann, Sadun Anik, and Wen-mei W. Hwu
Advances in Languages and Compilers for Parallel Processing,
U. Banerjee, D. Gelernter, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua (editors),
Pitman Publishing: London, 1993.

Randy

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