Cross-Paradigm Compilation across Programming Models: from Imperative to Asynchronous Graph

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Creator: 

Layeghi, Mahsa

Date: 

2022

Abstract: 

Recent years have seen a rapid evolution in multi-core processor architectures. However, programming multi-core processors efficiently is a challenging endeavor. Asynchronous Graph Programming is a novel parallel paradigm that is amenable to automated parallelization for multi-core processors. However, its semantics are both foreign to most programmers, and too low-level to support software development at scale. Thus, this thesis explores the development of a cross-paradigm compiler, that can translate code in an imperative language (C) to AGP, allowing existing code-bases to be re-deployed and automatically parallelized, despite the semantics of their original language being sequential. Towards this, we define semantic transformations from (a sub-set of) C to AGP, and demonstrate the implementation of a compiler that implements those transformations. Our results show that it is possible to transform C into AGP code, and that transformed parallel implementations running on a multi-core system, for a suite of testing benchmarks, outperform sequential code substantially.

Subject: 

Engineering - Electronics and Electrical
Computer Science

Language: 

English

Publisher: 

Carleton University

Thesis Degree Name: 

Master of Applied Science: 
M.App.Sc.

Thesis Degree Level: 

Master's

Thesis Degree Discipline: 

Engineering, Electrical and Computer

Parent Collection: 

Theses and Dissertations

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