Course information

• Title: EE 4760 -- Introduction to Compiler Optimizations
• Call No.: 6573
• Professor: J. Ramanujam (Ram),345 EE Building, 578-5628 (Email: jxr [at] ece [period] lsu [period] edu)
• Office Hours: To Be Decided
• Grader/TA: To be announced
• Time and Place: MWF 8:40 - 9:30, 149 EE Building
• Text: No required text; the class will be based on handouts.
  However, you are encouraged to use the reference books listed below.

  References:

  1. High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing, Michael Wolfe, Addison-Wesley, 1996.

  2. Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures, R. Allen & K. Kennedy, Morgan Kaufman, 2001.
  

  Attention: Graduate students WILL get graduate credit for this course.
  

  Prerequisites: graduate standing OR ((data structures: CSC 3102) AND (computer organization EE 3755) AND (credit or registration in EE 4720 strongly suggested))
  

Description

The course deals with principles and practice of software for modern architectures. Issues in compilation of programs for high performance computers will be discussed in detail. Data dependence testing and program transformations constitute the core of this course.

Course Topics

This set of material is in the class notes. You will find relevant material in Chapters 4, 5, 7, parts of 8, 9, 10 and 12 from the book by Michael Wolfe. Additional material will be covered if we have time.

• Introduction
• Compilation issues
• Independence and parallelism detection
• Data dependence testing
• Induction variable analysis
• Standard transformations (constant propagation, ...)
• Parallelization, Loop scheduling
• Loop transformations (interchange, skewing, ...)
• Memory hierarchy (registers, caches, ...) optimizations
• Optimizations for (i) embedded processors, (ii) power/energy reduction

Tentative Grading (will finalize by last day to add)

2 tests (22.5% each), homework/projects (25%), final (30%).