Automation, Compilers, and Code-Generation
When: Summer semester 2016
CAMPUS #: 15ss-46578
Contact: Diego Fabregat
Prerequisites
Courses on C/C++ programming, high-performance computing or introduction to compilers constitute an appropriate background for this seminar. Reasonably deep knowledge in one or more of the following topics makes you a suitable participant:
- C/C++ programming, C++ templates
- OpenMP, multithreading, distributed-memory programming, task parallelism
- Autovectorization, vector intrinsics
- Numerical linear algebra
Seminar rules
- You may ask for a different topic no later than Wednesday, May 4th, 23:59:59.
- You may drop the seminar no later than Wednesday, May 18th, 23:59:59.
Then, I will send the ZPA the list of students participating in the seminar. - Evaluation:
- Reports will have a length of 7 to 10 pages.
- The presentations will be 25+5; that is, 25 minutes for the talk + 5 minutes for questions and answers.
- The weight of each task in the final grade is
- Report: 50%
- Presentation: 50%
Lectures
- When: Wednesdays, 5:00pm.
- Where: Rogowski 115 - AICES seminar room (Schinkelstrasse 2)
- Start: Wednesday, April 27, 5.15pm
Schedule
- Wed, Apr 27, 5.15pm: Topic assignment; semester schedule.
- Wed, May 18, 5pm: First review: report sketch.
- Wed, Jun 08, 5pm: Second review: slides sketch.
- Wed, Jun 29, 5pm: DEADLINE: slides submission.
- Wed, Jul 06, 5-7:30pm: Presentations - Session I.
- Mon, Jul 11, 5-7:30pm: Presentations - Session II.
- Wed, Jul 13, 5-7:30pm: Presentations - Session III.
- Wed, Jul 20, 5pm: DEADLINE: report submission.
Assigned Topics
| # | Name | Topic | Presentation date | Turn | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Frank Emrich | LLVM: IR and Optimization | Jul 06 | I | [PDF] |
| 10 | Simon Grätzer | LLVM: Code generation + autovec | Jul 06 | II | [PDF] |
| 8 | Andreas Schmitz | icc/gcc autovectorization | Jul 06 | III | [PDF] [CODE] |
| 9 | Felix Schwinger | Roofline model: compute bound | Jul 06 | IV | [PDF] |
| 4 | Safdar Khan | Just-in-time compilation | Jul 11 | I | [PDF] |
| 6 | Oliver Ney | BTO compiler | Jul 11 | II | [PDF] [CODE] |
| 5 | Sabarinath Mahadevan | OpenUH | Jul 11 | III | [PDF] |
| 12 | Patrick Ziegler | Nanos + Mercurium | Jul 11 | IV | [PDF] |
| 3 | Christian Fischer | (Smart) Expression templates | Jul 13 | I | [PDF] |
| 11 | Umair Muslim | Armadillo | Jul 13 | II | [PDF] |
| 7 | Md Ashiqur Rahman | Eigen | Jul 13 | III | [PDF] |
Material
- Guidelines: [Guidelines]
- Presentations: "HOWTO: Presentations", by P. Bientinesi [PDF]
- Report: [Template]