Clint: A Direct Manipulation Tool for Parallelizing Compute-Intensive Program Parts

Oleksandr Zinenko (1, 2) , Stéphane Huot (1, 2) , Cédric Bastoul (3)

1 IN-SITU - Situated interaction
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
3 CAMUS - Compilation pour les Architectures MUlti-coeurS

Parallel systems are now omnipresent and their effective use requires significant effort and expertise from software developers. Multitude of languages and libraries offer convenient ways to express parallelism, but fall short at helping programmers to find parallelism in existing programs. To address this issue, we introduce Clint, a direct manipulation tool aimed to ease both the extraction and the expression of parallelism. Clint builds on polyhedral representation of programs to convey dynamic behavior, to perform automatic data dependence analysis and to ensure code correctness. It can be used to rework and improve automatically generated optimizations and to make manual program transformation faster, safer and more efficient.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Performance et fiabilité [cs.PF]

Oleksandr Zinenko, Stéphane Huot, Cédric Bastoul. Clint: A Direct Manipulation Tool for Parallelizing Compute-Intensive Program Parts. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), Jul 2014, Melbourne, Australia. pp.109-112. ⟨hal-01055788⟩