Compiling scientific code using partial evaluation
Year: 1990
Type: article
Abstract: The partial evaluation approach, which transforms a high-level program into a low-level program that is specialized for a particular application, exposing the parallelism inherent in the underlying numerical computation, is discussed. A prototype compiler that uses partial evaluation is described. Experiments with the compiler have shown that for an important class of numerical programs, partial evaluation can provide marked performance improvements: speedups over conventionally compiled code that range from seven times faster to 91 times faster have been measured. By coupling partial evaluation with parallel scheduling techniques, the low-level parallelism inherent in a computation can be exploited on heavily pipelined or parallel architectures. The approach has been demonstrated by applying a parallel scheduler to a partially evaluated program that simulates the motion of a nine-body solar system.>
Source: Computer
DOI: 10.1109/2.62091
Authors: A. Berlin, D. Weise
Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1987632834