About
POLYTRACE is an Inria exploratory action which involves:
– Christophe Alias, principal investigator, Inria
– Keiji Kimura, Professor, Waseda University, Japan
Scientific description
Compilers must restructure the application to use as best as possible computing and storage resources. In general, runtimes do a better job than compilers, as the availability of dynamic informations (variable values, tests, loop iterations) make possible to make the right decisions. However, runtimes come with an overhead, which push them to coarse-grain task scheduling, while compilers are usually in charge of mapping the tasks to computation units (GPU, FPGA, etc) and then to extract fine-grain parallelism. We focus on programs from the polyhedral model, where the operations of the execution trace depends only on input size and where the compilation schemes are affine functions (schedule, resource allocation, etc). We believe this will make possible to obtain levels of optimizations out-of-reach by a purely static compilation.
In this project, we focus in the inference of high-performance computing compilation schemes thanks to dynamic analysis on a selection of execution traces. We plan to revisit the key ingredients of parallel/optimizing compilers: data placement, computation scheduling and partitionning and code generation. In particular, we will investigate how to select execution traces to ensure code coverage and how to extrapolate the results of dynamic analysis to polyhedral compilation mappings.
Keyworks
Compiler inference, dynamic analysis, polyhedral model