The Potential of Synergistic Static, Dynamic and Speculative Loop Nest
Optimizations for Automatic Parallelization
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Riyadh Baghdadi, Albert Cohen, Cedric Bastoul, Louis-Noel Pouchet and
Lawrence Rauchwerger
2011
Abstract
Research in automatic parallelization of loop-centric programs started with
static analysis, then broadened its arsenal to include dynamic
inspection-execution and speculative execution, the best results involving
hybrid static-dynamic schemes. Beyond the detection of parallelism in a
sequential program, scalable parallelization on many-core processors involves
hard and interesting parallelism adaptation and mapping challenges. These
challenges include tailoring data locality to the memory hierarchy, structuring
independent tasks hierarchically to exploit multiple levels of parallelism,
tuning the synchronization grain, balancing the execution load, decoupling the
execution into thread-level pipelines, and leveraging heterogeneous hardware
with specialized accelerators. The polyhedral framework allows to model,
construct and apply very complex loop nest transformations addressing most of
the parallelism adaptation and mapping challenges. But apart from
hardware-specific, back-end oriented transformations (if-conversion, trace
scheduling, value prediction), loop nest optimization has essentially ignored
dynamic and speculative techniques. Research in polyhedral compilation recently
reached a significant milestone towards the support of dynamic, data-dependent
control flow. This opens a large avenue for blending dynamic analyses and
speculative techniques with advanced loop nest optimizations. Selecting
real-world examples from SPEC benchmarks and numerical kernels, we make a case
for the design of synergistic static, dynamic and speculative loop
transformation techniques. We also sketch the embedding of dynamic information,
including speculative assumptions, in the heart of affine transformation search
spaces.
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