Hi Sebastian and Tobias,
I am a final year undergraduate in the Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India and I would like to work in the summers on the
auto-parallelization of loops in the Graphite framework. I'll be have a
long summer break of 3 months and I would like to pursue this project
under Google Summer of Code 2009.
Since coming across the project, I have gone through several papers
describing the polyhedral model and I am really excited about working on
this representation. My interest in compiler optimizations and
auto-parallelization dates back to some advanced courses that I have
undertaken in my undergraduate studies. I have completed courses on
"Advanced compiler optimizations" and "Parallel Execution of Programs",
both of which exhaustively covered various loop optimization on SSA
forms. I also have good programming knowledge in C/C++ and my experience
includes design of a complete compiler (both front end and the back end)
of fortran95 as part of my basic undergraduate course. I have also
implemented a library supporting the parallelization of partially
parallel loops using the R-LRPD Test.
To delve deeper into compiler's research I will be joining the graduate
school at UIUC from next Fall. I feel that working on this project would
give me great pleasure and it would be the best way I could have ever
spent my long vacations. I think we can implement most of the classical
optimizations - loop permutation, loop fusion / fission, strip mining,
etc in the summers. As I do not know what all optimizations are expected
to be covered in the project could you please help me with the problem
before I write my project proposal.
Thank you.
Regards,
Pranav Garg.
